This week we will be in the computer lab working on acids and bases.
Check this fun activity out!
Students: Please do the first challenge and we will do the second and third challenges in class.
If you have any questions please let me know. Also, we are almost done the school year! How exciting!!!

Earth Day!

This week we will be talking about Earth Day. This day happens every year and this year it will be its 40th Anniversary on Saturday. EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment.
Students:
I want you to go to this website: EPA and pick 5 you will commit to, to protect the environment in where you live. I want an explanation of why you picked each one and we will discuss this in class.
Parents:
You can help out in this project too.

Welcome Back! I hope you enjoyed your break and the student's science findings were very interesting great job on that.
NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery on April 5th, 1 of the 4 missions that will be held this year. Discovery has 7 astronauts and will begin its 13 day mission to the International Space Station. To read more on what has been going on since April 5. Click here
If you have any questions just email me or call me.
Thanks

Spring break!

Enjoy your spring break everyone. Make sure you put sunscreen on if you go down south on vacation.
Students: I want everyone to find something on the internet about a recent scientific discovery.
Enjoy and Have fun!

This week we will be going to the Wetland's Institute in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. I am sending home a permission slip to be signed by Friday so we can go on Tuesday, March 23.
Parents: Make sure you sign the premission slip by Friday.
Parents and Students: If you have never heard of the Wetlands Institute then click the link below. http://wetlandsinstitute.org/
If you have any questions or concerns please contact me asap.

Gravity

This week we will learn about GRAVITY.
Check this out with your children from Bill Nye the Science Guy.



If you don't know of Bill Nye then here is a website you can look at to learn about him.
Enjoy this weather and see you in class!
Parents: If you have any questions with anything that we are doing in class just let me know by phone or email stk37391@go.stockton.edu

Scientists

This week your children will be working on a project that has to do with a specific scientist. They will create a poster about a particular scientist.
Their guidelines are as follows:
1. must choose from the following list listed below
2. short biography about this person
3. picture of what the scientist looks like and accomplishments. The picture can be hand drawn or it can come from the internet.
This will be graded as a quiz grade so it should be easy and fun. The parents are welcome to help their children out and i am available also if their are any questions pertaining to this particular assignment.
The list of scientists that they have to choose from are as follows: The picture can be hand drawn or it can come from the internet.
Archimedes
Aristotle
Niels Bohr
Nicolaus Copernicus
Marie Curie
Charles Darwin
Leonardo Da Vinci
Rene Descartes
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Max Planck
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
Carl Sagan
Nikola Tesla