Moon Logs

Attention Parents and Guardians:

For the next month or so students in my science class will have a long-term assignment.  They will be observing the moon every night.  They must do this each evening, even on the weekends!  I have suggested that they leave the actual moon log at school in their notebooks and draw the moon on a separate sheet of paper because they will NOT be given an extra moon log if they loose theirs. 

Please allow your child to either go outside each evening or look out the window and view the moon.  If there is a cloudy day or a day that they do not have time to observe we will be keeping a class log as well. 

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

Mid-Summative Exam #3 Tomorrow – Daily Science Quiz Wednesday

Attention Parents, Guardians and Students:

I have been forgetting to update my blog!  Shame on me.  Anyway, we will be taking Mid-Summative Exam #3 tomorrow.  We are reviewing today, and here is a list of things to study:

• Be able to identify luminous items in the solar system
• Know which direction Earth rotates on it’s axis
• Be able to draw how light leaves a luminous object and illuminates and opaque sphere
• Be able to calculate local noon (sun transit) when given sunrise and sunset times (see my previous post for a web site that will help practice this)
• Be able to explain how it can be on time on the west coast and a different time on the east coast
• Be able to calculate what time it is on one coast given the time on another

Also, Wednesday we will take Daily Science Quiz #12 and students should have noted which questions will be on that quiz

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

Link to Sunrise/Sunset Data

Hi

For those who want to practice finding local noon for our quiz tomorrow here is the link to the US Naval Observatory web site:  USNO

Hope that helps!!

Mr. Yerington

Mr. Yerington — Now Appearing on Twitter!!

That’s right folks, in an effort to add even more technology to my life I now have a Twitter account.  For those that don’t know, Twitter is for short, quick posts about what you are doing.  If you have a Twitter account you can follow me!!  Also, since I found out my Blog allows me to add Twitter to my widgets you can check my latest updates right here.  Just check the left hand side underneath my “Recent Comments” widget!

If you want to check out my latest updates just go here!

Enjoy

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

NEW UNIT: Planetary Science

Attention parents, guardians and students:

We will be starting our planetary science unit now that spring break is over. This unit should be a lot of fun. One key for students will be to save all their quizzes and use them to study from. (There will be a quiz after each investigation)

The ten investigations are as follows:
• Where am
• Round Earth/Flat Earth
• Day and Night
• Discover the Moon
• Moon Craters
• Mapping the Moon
• Landing on the Moon
• Moon Rocks
• Phases of the Moon
• Exploring the Planets

There will be much more information both here and on my web site. As always, if you have questions feel free to call or e-mail me.

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences

Hello Parent’s and Guardians:

Our spring parent/teacher conferences will take place next week.  I would love to visit with as many of  you as I can.  The conferences will take place on Tuesday, March 10 and Thursday, May 12 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. both evenings.  They will be in the large gym (like fall conferences), however, this time there will be NO APPOINTMENTS.  They will be drop in only, so be aware you may have some wait time if teachers you want to see are busy.  We will do our best to accommodate everyone.  If you are unable to get in to see a certain teacher you may also schedule an alternate time to see them.

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

Levers and Pulleys Test – 2009

Attention Parents, Guardians and Students:

We are almost done with our Levers and Pulleys unit.  The final test will take place this Friday, March 6.  First, there is an online version of the test which you can access here.  Second, the following items will help guide you (or your student) in what to study:

VOCABULARY

• lever
• lever arm
• load
• fulcrum
• effort
• spring scale
• Newton
• diagram
• advantage
• pulley
• simple machine

OTHER

• Be prepared to correctly read a spring scale
• Be prepared to correctly diagram one or more lever systems (using the proper symbols)
• Be able to correctly label several real-world levers with the load, fulcrum and effort symbols and direction of force
• Be able to tell which pulley systems WILL and WILL NOT provide the user with an advantage by reducing the effort
• Be able to calculate the effort needed to lift a load in a particular pulley system
• Know how far one must pull the rope in order to move the load specified distance
• Be able to identify pulley systems that WILL and WILL NOT work properly
• Explain how to load a large boulder into a truck using a lever and a pulley (separately – not together…)

The test will be 52 points.  If students have questions about any of the following I encourage them to see me BEFORE the test day for help!  We will review on Wednesday with a game, and Thursday with a power point!

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

Response Sheet: Pulleys Assigned Today

Attention Parents and Guardians:

Students will be receiving the assignment titled Response Sheet: Pulleys today.  They need to completely answer the question (using complete sentences).  This assignment will be due tomorrow.

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

Web Site Updates

Hello everyone,

Last night I spent a little time (well, actually a LOT of time) with my web site and made some updates.  Here is  a  summary of the changes:

• updated the upcoming events list since some of them were OVER!!
• added a “Tests” page so that all my online tests will be grouped together (although I may make the links for the completed tests inactive…)
• thought about updating the top 10 list, but ran out of time :-(  I will try to get to that soon!

Check out the changes right here.  If you have any feedback on the updates you can leave a comment or e-mail me!

Thanks

Mr. Yerington

Mixtures and Solutions

Attention Parents and Guardians:

We have begun our Mixtures and Solutions unit. This unit will last until spring break from the looks of things. Students will learn how a lever works, what the three classes of levers are, how to identify and diagram the load, fulcrum and effort in real world levers, how to set up, diagram and use four different pulley systems, and more.

As always if you have questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail me.

Thanks

Mr. Yerington