My Science Homework

Today, we took a short quiz over the final units of the meteorology section of our class. These quizzes will be graded over the weekend and grades updated my early next week.
We then watched another 15 minutes or so of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Students were again encouraged to jot down notes […]

On our first day back from Spring Break, we began by reviewing the scores on the geology test that was completed the day before break.  The average scores were higher than on the previous test (average among all freshman:  71%) but many students did poorly on the “phases of the moon” portion of the test.  […]

Today we began a discussion of the rock cycle: the transition from one rock type to another. We started by discussing the formation of sedimentary rocks from sand. This portion of the rock cycle includes processes such as weathering and erosion. We will continue the rock cycle grpahic organizer in class […]

After wrapping up work on the stellar life cycle projects in class yesterday, today students began constructing a set of flash cards about the planets. We started class by watching a 2-minute video clip about the formation of a solar system. The video focused on how the dust and gas of a nebula […]

What would travelling into a black hole be like? Today’s lesson had us focusing on the implications of the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. We watched about 25 minutes of the great NOVA presentation Monster of the Milky Way. Tomorrow we’ll watch the rest. Since it is a […]

How big is the Universe? Admittedly, a tough question to wrap our heads around. How about starting smaller: how large is our solar system? How about our galaxy, the Milky Way? The scale of the universe is a tough concept envison. It’s simply too large for us to use any […]

The universe is a huge place. Telescopes help us visualize this space but are admittedly limited. In 1990, NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit around the earth and it has given us a much more impressive of the universe, to say nothing of our place within it.  The Hubble space telescope […]