1. Warm Up – Page 174: Do you think Pluto should be a Planet? Why or why not?
2. Completed our Pluto notes/discussion.
3. Pluto synthesizing activity passed out and discussed.

Homework: Pluto article due Monday, April 16. Here are the directions and the information handout.

1. Warm Up – Page 174: Copy today’s date and EQ. Then, write three sentences telling me what you know about the debate surrounding Pluto.
2. Sky Watch Challenge Week 3,  Level 1: Gemini. Find Procyon and look up. More info here.
3. Pass backed and discussed Test 3. Reteach is Wednesday morning and Retest is Monday, April 16. If you cannot make these times, please talk to me by Wednesday.
4. Pluto: What’s the big deal? compare/contrast lesson started – planet info

1. Warm Up – Study until the time runs.
2. Sky Watch Challenge. See the Challenge Page for more information.
3. Test

Homework: None – Enjoy spring break!

1. Warm Up – Page 172: What would you like to review for tomorrow’s test?
2. Spring Sky Watch Challenge Week 2 Level 2: Orion Nebula (see slide show for more info).
3. Test information
4. Review information

Homework: study for tomorrow’s test

1. Warm Up – Copy today’s EQ on page 170.
2. Completed our moon phases notes.
3. Moon facts notes.
4. Eclipses notes.

Homework: Study for your test on Thursday over History of Exploration and the Sun-Earth-Moon system.

1. Warm Up – Page 168: How can we figure out why we see moon phases?
2. Week 1, Level 3 Sky Watch Challenge Object: Pleiades. You can find out more about the Sky Watch Challenge on the information page.
3. Moon Phases Investigation with Lunar Landing Video. If you missed this in class today, you need to make arrangements to meet with Mrs. Wilson to make up the investigation.

Homework: None

1. Warm Up – Seasons diagram
2. Seasons Notes – page 167
3. Began talking about moon phases.

Here is the Seasons Simulation I mentioned in class. If you play with this simulation, seasons will make even more sense to you.

Homework: None

1. Warm Up – Page 166: If each season were a color, what color would each they be?
2. Sky Watch Challenge Week 1 Level 2: The Big Dipper (look in the NE sky after dark).
3. Continued our seasons discussions and modeled with a globe and lamp.

Homework: None

Monday:

1. Warm Up – Page 165: Complete a reflection about Friday’s notes on why we measure time the way we do.
2. Copy today’s date and EQ on page 166.
3. Discussed weekly constellation challenge. Find the Winter Triangle.
4. Began working to figure out why we have seasons.

Tuesday:

1. Warm Up – Page 166: 1. What are seasons? 2. How can we figure out if the tilt of the Earth changes to cause seasons or if the tilt of the Earth does not change to cause seasons?
2. 2012 Spring Sky Watch Challenge update (formerly constellation challenge.) New levels on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week. Yesterday’s challenge for this week is level 1 for this week – Winter Triangle.
3. Continued seasons discussions by graphing average monthly temperature for cities around the globe and modeling the basic movement of the Earth around the sun.

Homework: Illustrated timeline of the history of the exploration is due tomorrow. Remember this is from your exploration notes and should include dates, information and illustrations in any format of your choice.

1. Warm Up – complete final reflection from our exploration lesson on page 161.
2. Sun Poster: created an illustrated mini-poster of one of our sun analogies and turned in to Mrs. Wilson.
3. Discussed and took notes about why we measure time the way that we do.

Today’s Notes: (Page 164)

• Rotation – (day) the amount of time it takes Earth to make one spin on its axis (about 24 hrs)
• Revolution – (year) the time it takes Earth to make one orbit around the sun (365.2422  days) Leap year is every 4 years except in years that end in 00, those years also must be divisible by 400
• Weeks – 7 days because there were (are) 7 celestial you can see: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn
• Months (moonths) – how long it takes the moon to make a revolution around the Earth

Homework: Illustrated timeline of illustration is due Wednesday, March 21