Yesterdays lesson was simple, but the activity was rather intriguing. We learned about atomic theory, such as Dalton's theory, JJ Thompson, Retherford's gold experiment and the Cloud model. You know. simple stuff.
While the lesson was rather bland, the activity was interesting. My partner and I had black out petri dishes with shapes in them and a ball. By simply moving them around, we where to guess what shape was inside the dish. As you could guess, we where pretty bad, especially at first. This active seemed useless at first, but from what I can guess, it was used to show us how finding out what was inside something you couldn't see, like an atom, is pretty difficult.
I was wondering about the purpose of the activity as well. Basically it was to show how discovering the subatomic particles could be a challenge.
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