Seasons interactive diagram

http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Seasons-01.htm

This is a great review for the Seasons . See how well you can do!

Remember Summative assessment is tomorrow.

Seasons and Sharks

Today we reviewed some of the important key terms related to seasonal change. We also got to watch "Genie" the Great White Shark. Here is the link for the App for tracking the Great Whites;

http://www.expeditionwhiteshark.com/index.html
 In the next few weeks we will studying climate and weather.  http://www.whoi.edu/main/ocean-topics will be a important tool for research and education. Make sure to add this to your favorites.

Also the answers for the Seasons Gizmo is on www.homeworknow.com. Please review this. There will be a summative assessment on Monday on Seasons.

8 B Mosaic Seasons- Climate- Weather

Welcome to our "Blog". The first unit we will be covering is Climate. We will look at how different processes affect our climate. The first topic we are looking at are the seasons. In class we used  the diagram from our book which can be viewed at PHschool.com. It is cfp-1520. We are also using www.explorelearning.com . Here we have been completing the gizmo on Seasons. Words that we should know: Vocabulary: Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun

• Altitude – in astronomy, the angle between an object in the sky and the horizon.

o If the Sun is directly overhead, it has an altitude of 90°. If the Sun is on the horizon, it has an altitude of 0°.



• Axis – an imaginary line around which an object rotates.

o Earth’s axis runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.

• Azimuth – the compass direction of a celestial object.

o You can think of azimuth as compass bearings. Azimuth tells you the direction of an object in the sky.



• Equinox – one of the two days of the year in which the length of the day is equal to the length of the night.

o On the equinoxes, neither the Northern Hemisphere nor the Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the Sun.

o The spring equinox occurs around March 21, and the fall equinox occurs around September 22.



• Horizon – the line along which the sky and the Earth appear to meet.



• Latitude – a location’s angular distance north or south of the equator.

o Latitude is measured in degrees north or south.

o The latitude of the equator is 0°, the latitude of the North Pole is 90° N, and the latitude of Washington, D.C., is 39° N.



• Revolution – the movement of an object around another object.

o The path most celestial bodies follow as they revolve around another celestial body is called an orbit. Most orbits are elliptical in shape.



• Rotation – the spinning of an object around an axis.

• Solstice – one of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest apparent distance north or south.

o The longest day of the year is the summer solstice. The shortest day of the year is the winter solstice.

o In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs around June 21, and the winter solstice occurs around December 21.

Answers to Gizmo: http://cs.explorelearning.com/materials/SeasonsEarthMoonSunSE_Key.doc

Summer Science Institute

Strategies for using Technology in the classroom.
Strategies for Using Technology in the Classroom


Setting Objectives: Organizing Templates, Kidspiration, Inspiration, Microsoft

Data collecting tools: Survey Monkey, www.surveymonkey.com

Creating Standards-based objectives: Using Rubrics: Rubistar

http://rubistar.4teachers.org and Teachnology.com

Using a blog: http://mkhartwell.blogspot.com

Providing Feedback: Microsoft word: Using Review Toolbars, Insert comments

Kincaid Readability Scale : This is under Spelling and grammar.

Data Collection tools: Classroom Response Systems: “The Clickers”

Web resources: Math Playground www.mathplayground.com/index.html

Explorelearning: www.explorelearning.com

Cut The Knot: www.cut-the-knot.org/games.shtml

BrainPOP: www.brainpop.com

Providing Recognition: Using positive feedback , Creating certificates:

Online Certificates: Microsoft Office Education Resources:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates

Education Oasis: www.educationoasis.com/teacher_tools

Cues,Questions,and Advance Organizers: Standards based learning: www.fno.org/feb01/pt.html

Applying Bloom’s: www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

Welcome to Team Mosaic

Layers of the Atmosphere

Hello Mosaic. Today we looked at the layers of the atmosphere. We learned that as altitude increases, pressure and density decreases. Tomorrow we will review some of the layers of the atmosphere and look at how Density effects our atmosphere.

Our Atmosphere

Welcome 8B to my blog. We are starting out the year discussing our Atmosphere and how it impacts us. We will be looking at how altitude effects pressure and density of our air.