Agenda:
- Class Cleaning
- Collect GCs
- Science Eval.
- Mr. Science?

HW:
None

No Journal

Agenda:
- Launch Rockets

HW:
None

No Journal

Agenda:
- Launch Rockets

HW:
- Water Rocket Sheet - DUE Tomorrow

No Journal

Agenda:
- Test Rockets
- Water Rocket Blast-Off
- Journal Check

HW:
- Rockets Ready to Launch - Monday

Journal #142

Do you think a water rocket could be used to launch a person? Why or why not?

How much water do you plan to fill your rocket with? Why that amount?

Agenda:
- Build Rockets
- Test Rockets

HW:
- Last day for late/abs. work - Tomorrow
- Turn in textbooks - Tomorrow

Journal #141

If you need to add more mass to your rocket, what will/did you use?

Make a prediction on how high your rocket will fly. Why do you think it will reach that height (what about your rocket makes this possible)?

Agenda:
- Intro Tests
- Build Rockets

HW:
- Last day for late/abs. work - Friday
- Turn in Textbook - Friday

Journal #140

What are you making your fins out of and why?

What shape is your cone? Name it and draw it.

Agenda:
- Build Rockets

HW:
- Last day for late/abs. work - Friday
- Turn in textbook - Friday

Journal #139

What features of your rocket will make it stable in flight (fly straight and high)?

What are the 3 parts of the rocket that help reduce drag?

Agenda:
- Pass Back Quizzes
- Intro Water Rockets

HW:
- Last day for Late/Abs. work - Friday
- Turn in Textbook - Friday

Journal #138

How do rockets of any kind overcome gravity and fly?

How might you make a water rocket out of a 2-Liter bottle? (answer with words or draw a labeled diagram)

Agenda:
- Weather & Astronomy Quiz
- Debrief
- Balderdash

HW:
- 2 L pop bottle - Monday
- Last day for Late/Abs work - Friday

No Journal

Agenda:
- Mr. Science
- Quiz Review Sheet

HW:
- Weather & Astronomy Quiz - Tomorrow

Journal #137

List the stages of a star’s life from birth to death (all death options).

Where do the elements lighter than Iron (Fe) come from? Heavier than Iron?

Agenda:
- Neutron Stars & Black Holes

HW:
- Weather & Astronomy Quiz - Friday
- 2 L Pop Bottle - Monday

Journal #136

What is the most important factor that determines a star’s life?

What will be the end of our sun’s life?

Agenda:
- Finish Big Bang
- Life Cycle of a Star

HW:
- Weather & Astronomy Quiz - Friday
- 2 L pop bottle - Next Monday

Journal #135

What are the 3 evidences for the Big Bang we talked about yesterday?

Why can’t you say the Big Bang is “just a theory?”

Agenda:
- Pass Back Papers
- The Big Bang

HW:
None

Journal #134

What was the most surprising/mind boggling from our discussion of the universe on Friday?

Do you think it’s possible to know about the past from information in the present? Why or why not?

Agenda:
- Grade Jigsaw
- Powers of 10
- Yakko's Universe
- Hubble Deep Field

HW:
None

Journal #133

Light travels at 186 miles per second, 300,000 km per second.

Write 5.9 with 12 zeros after it. Now write 9.5 with 12 zeros after that. Those are the distances light travels in a year in miles & kilometers, respectively.