Check it out!

Saturn and Earth are having a close encounter. See the ringed planet at its best and brightest on April 28th.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvTSB5B0d0w
STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/25apr_saturn/

7th Grade Parent Help Needed

I'm looking for a few seventh grade parents to help me with funding for our sleepover at the Boston Museum of Science this May. I would like to apply to pto and JEF to reduce the cost of this trip. If you are interested please send me an email ( kaczynski.jim@jamestownschools.org ) and we can set up a time to meet. There were a few people that had expressed interest at open house but I did not write  your names down. Thank you!

meteor showers!

check out this link and get out to see the meteor showers!

NASA Science News
The annual Geminid Meteor Shower is set to peak on Dec. 13 and 14, 2012. The display, which is caused by an unusual 'rock comet,' could produce more than 100 meteors per hour during the dark hours before dawn this Thursday and Friday.FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/09dec_rockcomet/

Week of 11/7

Starting to get back on track after Sandy. 8th grade is finishing pedigree charts and starting traits lab while 7th grade is finishing classification and tree identification using dichotomous keys

Post your Sandy reports here

How are you making out during the storm?

Eye on the tropics

still huricane season - check out this site http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201218_ensmodel.html

week of 10/22

Seventh grade is working on classification and using dichotomous keys. We are learning leaf terms needed to ID trees. Eighth grade is making pedigree charts and using genetic terms.