The scientific method in practice! I hope you enjoyed becoming paleontologists and trying to make heads and/or tails out of the bones you found. While I hope you had fun it only becomes learning when you reflect upon the activity. What happened in your attempt to identify the bones and more importantly why? How did this simulation relate to an actual scientific dig?
Was he amazing or what? Are you ready to wow me? Do you believe? I do!
Yah, I know I need my sleep, and I need to be ready for school in the morning but everyone I know will be up at 1:36 am EDT Tuesday (tomorrow). How about you?
I’ve been sitting at my computer watching live feed from the Cape. The sun is setting and Discovery’s on the launch pad bathed in light, vapor coming off the external fuel tank. Really a beautiful site.
I am a little concerned about the weather both at the coast and here. There maybe some rain and concerns about lightning near the launch site and here we might have cloud cover to obscure the site.
I’ll be watching the forecast tonight before I set my alarm. Hmmm 1:30 am or 6:30 am?
I was sitting at the table Saturday morning having breakfast with my wife, in the background the weather channel was talking about the waves that we could expect from hurricane Bill, then close to 1,000 miles away off the coast of Virginia. Hard to imagine that something that far away could have a significant affect on the beaches of Florida.
About an hour later we were standing on the beach in New Smyrna. Waves were running 5-8 feet and breaking far from the waters edge. A few people played near shore where one minute you were in ankle deep water and the next almost to your waist. The pull of the water as it ran back out to sea was amazing!
Unfortunately later that day the power of the waves took the life of a body surfer in New Smyrna and today waves from the same storm may have claimed more lives in Maine.
It was great to see so many students and parents at meet your teacher today. I look forward to starting the new year this Monday. Even though I am “new” to Windy Ridge, it was awesome to see familiar faces from Science Olympiad, and yes we will have a Science Olympiad team this year. Look for more information about that in September.
See you all very soon!