Who Decided?
By jhbren
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This page has a convoluted history. I found the poem, years ago, in a magazine for science teachers; the author was a science teacher. Of course I saved it, and eventually filed it in my long list of quotes & poems that could be useful for teaching. Saturday, at my DD's birthday party, DGS was freezing water in a balloon. We discussed the likelihood of the balloon being stretched as as the water froze, and I remembered the poem. Then I thought a page featuring the poem might work for the altered art challenge of last Monday. It's true nobody took these images together, but there's no ephemera included, and the style is more instructional that arty. It might work for Jumpstart January Tasks 15 & 16 - I have applied two tutorials in the page creation - MST_Polish Your Papers with Levels & BMU_3B's of Bokeh - but I have no idea what the next requirement will be. So it's going in the seasonal sub gallery.
All the supplies are in the EXIF file, but the interaction of the layers isn't described, and there are a LOT of layers! I made the water/ice molecule layer from two diagrams in Google images, and linked them together to illustrate the gradual expansion of water as it gets colder, the molecules slow down and form hydrogen bonds that force them into hexagonal crystals, which take up more space than rapidly moving, warmer molecules - hence, expansion, lower density, floating ice. The rest of the layers were papers and adjustment layers.
Thanks for looking!
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