UPDATE, AND A COVID-19 LESSON!

Hello again, students!   I enjoyed reading your responses to last week's video, and I was touched by some of them.  Many of you shared your thoughts on how these events have affected your lives, and I appreciated your honesty.  I was actually amazed at how much some of you wrote.  

Many of you had a lot to say about how this situation affected you, and continues to affect you.  I want to share a video that some of the Bullard Staff made, to let you know that we haven't forgotten  you:






And we aren't going to forget you----period.  Since that's true, starting today I'm going to start giving you more opportunities for reflection, and today's lesson is about the thing we all want to avoid. . . 

Well, we all probably now recognize this picture as an attempt to show the outer capsule that contains the COVID-19 virus.  Many people are hoping that, when spring finally gets here, that the virus will become less of a problem.  We don't actually know if that's true, and I don't want to raise false hopes.  

But the question of WHY people might have that hope is related to an important idea in Chemistry!   Watch the video first:  





Now, thinking about the video, contact me via email at:

Scott.Hatfield@fresnounified.org 

Inside the email, tell me in your own words how the concept of activation energy might explain how the coming of spring can, in fact, weaken some viruses.