NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Field Trip

Here are some pictures from our NASA JPL Field Trip.  We were so privileged to be able to go to such an amazing place and learn about the different JPL-created robots exploring our universe!  Maybe one day some of you will design rovers...

Our class in front of a full-scale model of the Curiosity Mars Rover

Learning about the Curiosity Mars Rover.  Curiosity is a robot geologist and geochemist! How cool is that? We learned about the twin cameras (for 3D images), the aluminum wheels (with JPL in morse code embedded into the treads) and many other things.  

In front of a full-scale model of Galileo, which orbited and studied Jupiter

Future NASA Scientists?

A full-scale model of the twin Mars rovers, Spirit & Opportunity

Infrared technology! We learned about that during science, didn't we? (blue = coolest, white= warmest)

More future NASA Scientists?

Students! Don't forget to visit the JPL website.  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/  On the website you can do so many cool things including:

--Watch videos of the Curiosity Rover landing on Mars

--Make your own models of real robots with scissors and paper

--Play a game that lets you design your own planet

--And MANY other games and activities

How Bees See

This week we have been learning about the electromagnetic spectrum and all the different kinds of waves in that spectrum.  I taught you today that bees can actually see a broader spectrum of light than we can.  They can see Ultraviolet (UV) light that is invisible to us!  The UV light patterns serve as a sort of landing zone for the bees.  Check out these pictures to compare how our eyes see flowers and how a bee would see them.  It is so amazing to think that God came up with this idea for flowers to attract bees so that the bees can pollinate the flowers and get some food out of it!  God is the ultimate Creator!

Homework Now Posted

Students and Parents, 

If you look up at the blue bar on this web page, you will find a tab labeled "Assignments".  Click on that and you will be able to find homework and other assignments for both 7th Grade and 6th Grade Math.  Students should still be writing their assignments down every day.

Queen Mary Field Trip Friday!

Woohoo! Our first field trip of the year is coming up for those of you who finished all 3 of your summer reading projects.  If you haven't done them all, you have until Thursday to do so if you want to go.  For those of you going, please make sure your PERMISSION SLIP is turned in as well as the money.  The cost for parents for the Queen Mary tour is $8 plus money for lunch (In-N-Out).  Students, you only need money for lunch.  Meet at the auditorium at 8:00am sharp.  We will be leaving just after 8:00.  Yay!