People will be travelling to places along this path from all over the world. Hotels are already getting booked. This is why I’m posting about this now. If you’re interested in seeing the eclipse from the path of totality, the time to make plans is now. I’ve already made plans to visit relatives in Kentucky. I’m so excited about this eclipse, and will be posting more about it as the date gets closer. If you want to learn more about it, just do an online search. Let’s end with this joke from http://orbitoregon.org: How does the moon cut the sun’s hair? Eclipse it!
Lab activities during the week of Feb 13-17:
Our students have been busy in the lab, doing lots of experiments. Kindergarteners have been learning about how objects move, and they used toy cars on ramps to see how pushes and pulls affect motion. First graders are learning about rainforests, and in the lab we’re doing activities that show how some animals are well-adapted to their environments. In one of these activities, the students try different kinds of tools, like tweezers, eye droppers and slotted spoons, to pick up items that are like food, and they see that some tools are best suited for getting certain types of food, just like some bird beaks are best adapted for certain foods. Second graders have been demonstrating that sound is a vibration, with rubber bands, tuning forks, and musical instruments. Third graders are rock and mineral experts now, and can identify samples by their properties. Fourth graders are learning about the wide variety of animals and how to classify them (whether they are vertebrates or invertebrates, what kind of body covering they have, etc.) Fifth graders finished their weather experiments by making colorful convection currents, like the one in the picture below. They saw that hot water rises above cold water, just like air masses in weather systems. Sixth graders ended a chemistry unit with chemical reactions, and used the color changes of cabbage juice to look for signs of a chemical change. It’s been a colorful week.
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