Thursday, May 12, 2011
Push Pop Press — Al Gore's Our Choice
Google Global Science Fair 2011
The Judging Panel has identified the 60 semi-finalist entries, and now it's up to YOU to decide which project will take home the People's Choice Award. You can vote once in each of the three age-group categories until 20 May at 11:59 PM EST. The People’s Choice winner will be announced on 23 May, along with 5 finalists in each age category."
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1.30 We love our Moon!
source: http://pikachu2517.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html
- Find out how to remove the word notification on your comments (it's annoying for me to add a comment to your learning blog)
- Start a new post with the syllabus objective code
- Upload the syllabus statement as an image
- You may need to move the elements accommodate the image (large images overlap the text on the right of the blog)
- Find an image of the Earth and Moon showing their relative sizes, insert the image and source
- Copy and answer these question, sourcing any sites and video/images you use:
How was the Moon formed?
How old is the Moon?
Why does the Moon only show one side to us all of the time?
The Moon is slowly drifting away from us, by how much per year?
Explain what will eventually happen to it
How much larger is the Sun than the Moon?
What natural phenomenon does this ratio help to observe?
Insert a video (and source) of the answer to the question above
How far away is the Moon?
What was significant about the 19th March 2011 (regarding the Moon)?
Why is there no atmosphere on the Moon?
Why is the gravity on the Moon 1/6th than of Earth?
How many people have stepped on the Moon? Who was the last?
Why does the Moon orbit the Earth?
How many days does it take to orbit?
What effect does the Moon have on the Earth?
Insert a video (and source) of the answer to the question above
Other planets have moons, find images if those moons
How many moons are there in our solar system?
We love Pluto: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pluto/mail.html
How dedicated? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/space-shuttle-transit/
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