Saturday, 12/31! GRAIL reaches the moon, hopefully!

Happy New Year, all!

In case you didn't know, the GRAIL twin satellites are, hopefully inserting into orbit around the Moon, studying the gravitational field of Earth's moon. Aboard these 2 satellites are 8 cameras (4 on each) that students from around the world will be operating, taking photos from about 30-35 miles above! The program is called MoonKAM. If you are interested, email me! We will be participating!

Tour of the USS Michael Murphy - 12-3-11

On Dec. 3rd, 2011 and in conjunction with a partnership between Lockheed
Martin, the Maine Space
Grant Consortium, the University of Southern Maine and NASA, the AEGIS Test
Officer (CDR Matthew Schroeder) along with members of Lockheed Martin (Sharon
Eggleston and Brad Krog) hosted 14 University and High School Educators to a
tour of DDG 112 in hopes of inspiring future high school and college students
to pursue engineering careers.

Post from Amy! Thanks for sharing. If anyone else has something to share, please send it along.

Hello,

These are the sites that I use for parts of the cell.

The John Kyrk site has some things (you have to click on the parts) like the nuclear pore complex and details about protein synthesis that I don't go to much into until we actually get to protein synthesis later on in the year, but it's not bad for them to see it and get exposed to the idea, I just don't give them questions that are that specific.

The University of Utah site is awesome. You can click below to make the cell membrane transparent and find your way around a little easier. This site has a great audio component to it.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/insideacell/

http://www.johnkyrk.com/CellIndex.html

Enjoy!

Amy

Sunday, 12/11

Well, now I have a beautiful grandson (11/18/11) and WHAT A GREAT tour! We had awesome tour guides, a beautiful day and super company! Our thanks to CDR Matthew Schroeder for you time.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

Thursday, 11/10 Still no grandson! :(

For those of you who haven't done this before with students, check out Activity 1 of Chapter 3! We are right smack dab between 2 meteor showers...the Taurids and the Leonids. In chapter 3, student research groups choose their method of collection of micrometeorites. We do the baggies and magnets together during class. I will place a couple of great identification sites in this blog. Good time to talk about the significance of comet debris and why they are so important to astronomers coming from outside our solar systems. This is also one of the "vehicles" that brings materials from supernovae, etc.

Sunday, 10/30

Three launches and a HUGE success! Fun had by all and lots of excitement (and learning) had by all! Congratulations, all!

Up, up and away!! 3 launches!

The first tethered launches will take place the week of the 24th of October.

Wednesday, October 26 at Mt. Blue
Thursday, October 27 at Westbrook
Friday, October 28 at Winthrop

Can't wait!

Astrobiology-Scientific Ballooning 2011-12: Thursday, 9/15

I'm not sure what I'm doing here! Testing!

Thursday, 9/15

The Winogradsky Columns sound yummy! Click on the 2 columns for some great sites. I sometimes use the little video on how to do it (the first one). It comes out really small, but you can do a control-+ and make it fit the screen or let kids listen to it with earbuds.

Friday, 9/9

Sounds like everyone is off to a rip-roaring start! Sewer Maggots and all! :) If you find any sites or have any pictures to share, just send them along and I can put them on the blog for all! See you on October 7th!

Friday, 7/22 USM

Today, we are planning our year!!

Sunday, July 17

Hi, all,

East Texas was awesome, wild pigs and all! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday! See you at USM!