Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Topics, Vocab, and elements to learn this week

PT Test Friday, November 1 Elements 1-22  (1-18 are random, 19-22 all)

Report also due on Friday-- 300 words over the agreed-upon topic.

Quiz over planets  next Tuesday--

Facts about each planet
Name them in order
Spell them correctly
Vocab:
Perihelion
Aphelion
Albedo

What an astronomical unit is and its abbreviation

Kepler's 3 laws of planetary motion  (middle school version)

Differences between inner and outer planets and which are which

Happy trails to you on this third rock from the sun!

Friday, October 18, 2013

SCHEDULE UPDATE

Dear Students,

Thank you so much for your flexibility and hard work this fall.  Good job!  I just wanted to update the class schedule now that we've had several weeks of trial and error.

Monday- Active instruction, have your book, have your brain and be ready to think about concepts.
Tuesday- Quiz Day with Miss Molinaro in Cascade
Wednesday- New concept framework=vocabulary given, ideas discussed
Thursday-Active instruction over new information
Friday- Periodic Table Quiz, more delving into new concepts

The lesson cycle begins on Wednesdays, ends the following Tuesday.

Periodic table elements will be listed in a calendar coming soon.  On short weeks, we will push the periodic table quiz to the following Monday.  (Like this week!  Quiz will be over elements 1-14, name, number and symbol).

Monday, October 7, 2013

Ultra Deep Field Hubble

Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3 D

We will look at this Wednesday, but I wanted to get this on the blog so you can check it out. By the way, the singing astronaut is Canadian Chris Hadfield.  He has a dedicated channel on you-tube and a teenaged kid of his own, so he mixes that up to interact with educators everywhere.

But this link is pretty amazing~enjoy!
http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/deep_astronomy/episodes/

and the usual caveats apply to a Christian world view versus naturalism.  Consider together.