SIR, On Behalf of Planet Earth, We Welcome You!

SIR (Science in Residence) has begun! Today we met our college age scientists from UW Oshkosh who are cementing in some finishing concepts from our study of space. Today we learned about scale models and why they are useful. We also built a scale model of the Sun and compared it to a scale model of Jupiter. We learned that all models have to be shrunk down the same amount in order to compare them accurately. After making these models we were able to view scaled models of stars that are much larger than our Sun.

We also learned that 109 Earths would fit in a line across the sun. With the Earth able to have 4 of our moons fitting across it, that would total 109x4=436 moons across the Sun! Wow!! We also learned that our moon has a name, Luna.

Lastly, we sorted stars by temperature, color, and size.

I have taken a bunch of photos on my iPhone, but it died and I have no power here at school for it. When I get home I will upload the photos and make another blog post to let you know they are up. Each day I will add photos to the album. By Friday we should have quite a few photos. Check back later tonight for the first batch of photos.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring? It should be fun!!

What was your favorite activity today? Comment below!!

Congratulations are in order. Mackenzie, you did a great job accomplishing the Club Geek Challenge below. Anyone else want to give it a shot? You have until the end of the week.
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.