This week and some of next we will do a short unit on heat transfer.  This is something we will come back to again later this year, but it makes sense to do a little with it now.  Monday through Wednesday will be spent gaining some background information (assignments are on edline).  Thursday and Friday [...]

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What do you think about the idea of crashing things to see what happens?  Sound fun?  Check this out.
“Hey, lets crash two rockets into the surface of the moon and watch what happens!”  Imagine you just suggested that to your boss at NASA, and don’t forget rockets aren’t cheap!
That is exactly what NASA just did.  [...]

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This is a test post.  Please disregard.

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Thursday kids at Kennett Middle School and Bartlett School will kick off the annual online science fair. All 7th and 8th grade students from these two schools will begin working on projects of their own design while collaborating with others in an online environment. Didn’t participate last year? You can still check [...]

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Follow local student Liam on his adventures aboard a 42 foot sailboat at http://seazen.net/.  Subscribe to the feed.

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I came across this today.
My 8th grade students started a blogging project last Saturday on the International Day of Climate Change at http://ccassinelli.edublogs.org/. We were inspired by the 40-day challenge from Tread Lightly (http://treadlightly.me/challenge.html). The 40-Day Challenge focuses on environmental stewardship by challenging readers to adopt or be inspired by our green commitments.
Our blog will [...]

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Can a students science fair project be relevant to real science?  You bet. Last year two students conducted a science fair project that investigated the effect of different smells on whether or not people would agree or disagree with certian questions.  I came across this article of the Effect of Odors on Moral Behavior in [...]

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Greetings and welcome to this week in science!
This week we will be study the changes that happen to matter as it changes from one state to the next. We will use Molecular Workbench, a software project that allows us to model the motion of molecules. The end of the week will wrap up [...]

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They Might Be Giants, enjoy…

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