Agenda May 31

1 Family Life Presenter Day 3 - Birth Control

Agenda May 30

1 Family Life Presenter Day 2  STD's

Agenda May 29

1 Family Life Presenter Day 1
Parts, Where babies come from, Twins, Menstruation, and Sexting.

Agenda May 25

1 Video Bill Nye Great Discoveries in Astronomy

No Miniatures Club Today
I am off to Albuquerque to visit some family.  Early flight

Agenda May 24

1 Launch Water Bottle Rockets (we actually had 3 blow up on the launch stand this year)  No one was hurt even though I was standing right next to them when they blew.
2 No Miniatures Club on Friday

Open House at my daughter's school tonight.  Her first one.

Agenda May 23

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHARYN

1 Bottle Rocket Lab construction

The last day for make up work for 3rd Trimester is this coming Tuesday.

Agenda May 22

Rats I swore I put the 22nd in.
1 Straw Rocket Lab day 2 due at the end of class

Agenda May 21

1 Straw Rocket Experiment day 1 A group choice experiment testing the students' abilities at performing and writing lab reports.  due tomorrow at the end of class
2 2L soda bottles needed by Wednesday
3 Start returning Science Texts now.
4 Last day for make up work is Tuesday May 29

The 2L soda bottles are for the Water Bottle Rocket Project.  See this link to understand more.
http://www.tclauset.org/21_BtlRockets/BTL.html

Agenda May 17/18

1 Video October Sky
Start Returning Textbooks on Monday
Great America Physics Day tomorrow.  Congratulations to all who made Trebuchets

Agenda May 16

1 Return Work
2 Collect Permission forms
3 Solar Eclipse Sunday
Below are some websites talking about the eclipse.
http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/news/bay-area-public-viewing-partial-eclipse-sun-may-20-2012
Scroll down on this one for San Jose Astronomical Society
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2012May20Agoogle.html
Cool map from NASA (zoom in)
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2012May20A.GIF
Shows bands and percent of sun covered.  From this I determined we should experience over 80%

Agenda May 14/15

Block Schedule 1-3-5 on Monday and 2-4-6 on Tuesday
1 Constellation Miniposter Project due today
2 Collect Video Permission form today

You can start returning textbooks on Wednesday

No Miniatures Club on Friday

Agenda May 11

1 Trade and Grade Test Prep
2 October Sky Permission Slips due Monday/Tuesday

Agenda May 10

1 Test Prep due Friday (tomorrow)
2 October Sky Video Permission slips due on Monday/Tuesday
3 Art supplies for project on Monday

Another Reminder.  The last day I will take make up work is Tuesday, May 29

Agenda May 9

1 Test Prep for STAR test
2 Permission Slip for Movie October Sky due Monday/Tuesday  May 14/15

Start returning Textbooks next week
Art Supplies on Monday?Tuesday next week for Miniposter project

Agenda May 8

1 8th Grade Diagnostic Post Test

Students should remember to take their time answering questions on the STAR test

Agenda May 7

1 Trade and Grade Chapter 14 and 15 Test

Agenda May 4

1 Test Chapter 14 and 15 Standard 4 Solar System
 Miniatures Club is Aerodrome 2.  We may be still over the English Channel or we could be over Iron Bottom Sound and "the Slot".  Either way, we will be over water.

Agenda May 3

1 Video Bill Nye Comets and Meteors
2 Trade and Grade Bill Nye Videos
3 Turn in Hertzsprung Russell Diagram Activity and Classifying Galaxies/Stars Life Cycle WS

I swore I did yesterday's agenda.  The WS due today was given out yesterday.  We also did an Activity about the Expanding Universe using rubber bands

Agenda May 1

1 Activity How do Astronomers Measure Distances to Stars? (Parallax Shift)
2 Activity How is a Star's Color Related to its Temperature? (Hertzsprung Russell Diagram) due Thurs, May 3

Reminder test on Fri on Chapter 14 and 15
Reminder last day for make up work is Tues, May 29

May Day is also Lei Day in Hawaii.