Greetings and welcome back. This week we will wrap up our initial investigation of matter. Through data gathered in the lab we have confirmed that hot water is less dense than cold water and that the change in density that occurs with heating is due to a change in volume. Coincidentally we [...]

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It feels like summer, like this past summer, hot and humid with plenty of rain. But today is September 28 and early fall. Pushing plenty of warm air and moisture our way is Hurricane Kyle.

Hurricanes in the Gulf of Maine are quite rare. First of all we are well north [...]

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Your assignment for Google Reader is simple. During class today, find an article of interest to you. Comment back here and tell me:

The title of the article- you should link back to the article.
Brief summary of the article (2-3 sentences)
Why you are interested in this article.

Here is my example:
Before becoming a science teacher, [...]

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Last week you spent some time thinking about yourself as a learner.  You used learning style and interest inventories to help you.  Last year, I wrote an article titled “How I Learn Best”.  I am republishing that articles here.  I hope that you too can take the time to reflect on your own learning style, [...]

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Greetings and welcome back! This week we will continue to move ahead in our investigation of the effects of heat on floating and sinking. By weeks end we will surely have enough data to resolve the issue. Also we will begin using Google Reader as a way to obtain information. [...]

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Open house is tonight.  I hope many of your parents can make it here to meet the team and to see the renovations in the building.  See you there.

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Greetings and welcome back.  This week we will be investigating some basic properties of matter, while at the same time coming to understand how hypotheses are used in science to help us design experiments.  Below is an approximate outline for the week.
Monday-Check in with your Reader account, then begin exploring a new anomaly
Tuesday-Lab work in [...]

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Your Google Reader account can be used for a variety of news sources.
For now we will begin with a few basic sources. Follow the links below to subscribe to the feeds.
BBC Nature and Science News, World Edition
My web site, Investigate, Collaborate, Learn
National Geographic News
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Blog
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory News [...]

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Greetings and Welcome Back! I hope you all had a restful weekend. How fortunate were we that most of the rain fell at night? I know I enjoyed so great time outside this weekend.
This week we will begin to explore some of the online tools that you can use this year to [...]

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Tropical Storm Hanna, previously Hurricane Hanna, is continuing to head north past the Bahamas, towards the Carolinas in the next day or so. By the weekend the forecast calls for Hanna to move out through the Gulf of Maine. Our location, a good distance from the coast and certainly a good distance from [...]

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