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

Let's Learn About the Oceans

We are learning about oceans this week and i would like the students to go on this website and take this quizto see how much they already know.

I also would like the parents to look at this website Nnational Ocean Sevice (NOS) because NOS delivers the tools and services needed to understand, predict, and respond to the challenges we face along America's 95,000 miles of shoreline and 3.5 million square miles of coastal, Great Lakes, and deep-ocean waters.

Welcome back to a new week! Let's see how long it will take for another snow fall. This week we will be discussing ecosystems. An ecosystem consists of biotic and abiotic components. Components such as land, water, and air are not resources as much as they are the source of life. An ecosystem is generally an area within the natural environment in which physical (abiotic) factors of the environment, such as rocks and soil, function together along with interdependent (biotic) organisms, such as plants and animals, within the same habitat. Ecosystems can be permanent or temporary.

Check this out this site Earth Week lets you know the current significant environmental events that occur on Earth for the current week.

Biomes are similar to ecosystems, and are climatically and geographically defined areas of ecologically similar climatic conditions such as communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, often referred to as ecosystems. Biomes are defined based on factors such as plant structures (such as trees, shrubs, and grasses), leaf types (such as broadleaf and needleleaf), plant spacing (forest, woodland, savanna), and climate.

Click on this link to find out more about Biomes

Winter Wonderland

Hey, everyone well as everyone can see we are stuck inside because school is cancelled for this week! We had over 20 inches of snow down here in South Jersey and we are expecting a foot of snow tonight going into tomorrow. THe public school district has been cancelled all week because of electric outage and people have been in the schools for shelter. Stay dry and warm!

Rocks and Minerals

This week we will learn about Rocks and Minerals.
W will be discussing various rocks and minerals and where they are located.

I would like my students to check this out before coming to class tomorrow and print out their results. This is just a fun assignment and to see what you know about rocks and minerals already. Have fun and Good luck!
Click this link: Quiz

The Solar System

Solar System

Today,is the start of a new week! We will be learning about the solar system this week and how each planet is different from one another. I will be having my students work on a webquest about the Solar System and this will take about a week to complete. In this webquest they will be able to make their own planet and learn about each planet individually.

Parents are encouraged to look at the Solar System and talk about it with their children.

Volcanoe News for Parents and Students

To parents:
Check this website out to see recent news about volcanoes.

To students:
Check out how volcanoes work!

Volcanoes

Welcome, my name is Rachel Fleischer and this is my blog and i would like to learn about volcanoes and how they affect the enviroment.
The approach i would like to pursue is to teach middle school children about this area of science by giving them helpful resources from the internet and elsewhere.