SIR, Your Atmosphere is in the Way of My Moon!

Wednesday, January 09, 2008
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Thirty-six new photos have been added to our SIR (Science in Residence) photo gallery. Today we reviewed what we learned about scale models by using balloons to to make models of the Earth, our moon, and Mars. This gave us a great comparison to see the relative size of these objects. We also were able to understand the distance between these objects by keeping them in scale.

Next we learned about the telescopes and how the atmosphere can interfere with what we are seeing from Earth. We then practiced surveying a mystery planet from space without an atmosphere, comparing observations.

Lastly, we observed how meteors impact the surface of a moon or planet by dropping different sized objects into a fake surface. Check out the pictures for more details.

As you notice on our planner sheet, there was not a lot of classwork today. We are in the middle of taking our district assessments. We should be finished with everything by the end of the week. Next week we will continue with our current spelling list and language arts story.

Congrats on your math tests, our class average was a 93%!!

Club Geek Challenge:
1. Find a picture on the internet for 5 or more of your spelling words.
2. Upload them to our Digital Briefcase.
3. Go to this thread and paste each of our pictures along with the correct spelling of each word.
4. Look for me to post back, get your reward in the morning.
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