Take a look at the Sun around sunset (careful not to hurt your eyes) and you will see Venus crossing in front! This is called a transit. There won’t be another for a long time!
Transit of Venus TOMORROW, June 5th, 2012
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new black hole detector to launch this summer
A great description of how black holes AND x-ray detectors work! We’ll have to see what happens after this launches!
Scale of the universe
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Explore the sizes and distances of things in the universe, from the smallest to largest!
The Strangest Alien Planets
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Supermoon!
It was cloudy and foggy this weekend, but you can still see the super moon if you look! Here’s a few videos that explain what’s happening in the sky.
Fantastic Aurora: Inside the Sun to Earth’s Poles
Watch this amazing video about the aurora borealis!
Green Cup Challenge!
Churchill is participating in the Green Cup Challenge! We are going to try to improve our accuracy in recycling and sorting trash appropriately. Here’s a short video about how NYC’s recycling works:
A few games we enjoy about recycling:
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“I don’t want to clean my room!” Help Anita sort her messy belongings into paper recycling, bottles and cans, composting, yard sale/donation items, and plain old trash.
Michael, Michael, Go Recycle! Pick up the pieces of recycling and sort them into the appropriate bins. Meanwhile, you’d better stop those littering kids before they make more work for you!
Recycle Roundup! Sort into recycling, compost, and trash.
Baking soda and vinegar videos!
We have been exploring chemical changes in science with Cluster B recently and saw these videos in class… here they are by popular demand!
The world record for the largest baking soda and vinegar volcano
Baking soda and vinegar powered rocket
Rainforest exploration
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Earth, Sun (and bonus: The Moon!)
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Seasons quiz!
Think you know about the seasons? Try this quiz and find out!
The Earth and Sun: Making the Seasons
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Click the picture to explore!
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219’s Space Slideshow
Here is 219’s space slideshow, entitled “The Way to the Milky Way”. Since the original music chosen was copyrighted, here it is with planetarium-style music. Enjoy!
221’s Space Slideshow
This slideshow was made by the students of 221 and is called “The Way to the Milky Way”. Since the original music they chose is copyrighted, it appears here with planetarium-style music. Enjoy!
making your own ice cream
Attention parents! Your kids made ice cream on their last day of science class! We had a lot of fun! The flavor was vanilla. We are putting this on Churchill Science so the children can make ice cream at home. We recommend the kitchen table. The recipe calls for 1/2 cup of salt, but you can use a little bit less. We also found that using double bags made it less messy, because it leaked a little from a hole in the bottom of the bag. It was yummy!
by Room 224 – Chas, Larson, Calan, Kobe, Scarlet, Cloe, Elizabeth, Mia, Lloyd, Elias, Ashley and Josh.