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