Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Naval Oceanography Portal

This site has a multitude of helpful links. Sunrise/sunset tables, moon rise and set tables, as well as current moon phase images are available. There is a lot on moon phases: charts, diagrams, definitions...a good one stop shop.
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Monday, March 15, 2010

SMART Education Shortcuts, under Technology, is a quick access to popular SMART pages. The page includes EDCompassnewsletter, The SMART Exchange(classroom-ready resources), SMART TeacherTube channel (videos created by educators and SMART experts), SMART YouTube channel, and Customer Support.

SMART Education Shortcuts can also be found under www.education.smarttech.com . This page offers a link to several newsletters. My favorite was Support Link, which gave helpful tips.

Also added under Technology is SMART Online and Toolkits. I mysteriously lost these and spent a lot of time searching for them. Online returned as mysteriously as it left, but toolkits was somehow deleted. To save future grief, I
tagged them in my web lists.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Engineering in the Classroom

This link contains First Lego League, Science Olympiads, Space Day, Team Rocketry, National Engineering Day, Math Counts.
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Snow Day

I know most of you are disappointed because we are out of school today. You're probably sitting around thinking "What to do...What to do?" Well grumble no more!

Check out the websites listed on our blog while you warm up before heading back outside.You can learn more about snow and learn how to take pictures of a snowflake at SnowCrystals.com. To get there fast, just click the link under Science Websites. When we have a thick snow, my husband's favorite thing to do is make snow cream. He has several recipes but for beginners I suggest you try the one below. (I inserted some science words, in CAPS, because I just couldn't resist.)

QUICK and EASY SNOW CREAM
1. Mix 1 cup of sugar into 1 cup of milk. Stir until sugar is DISSOLVED. Add 2 tablespoons of vanilla.2. Cover your SOLUTION and put it in the refrigerator to chill while you go outside to get your snow.3. Scoop 8 cups of fresh snow into a clean cold bowl (putting your bowl outside first to chill works well). Add your sugar/milk SOLUTION and stir until your MIXTURE is well-combined and has the TEXTURE of ice-cream.4. Serve immediately because it doesn't freeze well.

Special note: Use only WHITE snow :-p