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Tutorial Schedule
Mondays - Morning & Afternoon
Tuesday - Afternoon
Wednesday - Afternoon
Thursday - Morning
Parents must agree to allow students to stay for tutorials. There is a tutorial bus that will leave the school at 4:30 to bring all students home that stay late.

**There will be some weeks that I will have meetings or duty and will be unable to hold tutorials. I will keep the students posted on those dates.
However, please see me before school, after class, and I can always work out some schedule to help you succeed!
The Agenda Tab gives the daily activies of the classroom. It will tell you what we do each day. Keep up with your child's work by reading the information each week.

The Policies and Procedures Tab is where you can find my expecations for the classroom.

The Vocabulary Tab will contain vocabulary words, study information, and websites to help increase understanding of vocabulary.

The Cool Science Tab will have links to COOL science sites, experiments and just plain fun!

www.sciencefair-projects.org/

www.terimore.com/

www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_ideas.shtml

www.all-science-fair-projects.com/category0.html

Here are a couple of items related to Astronomy education that you might be
interested in:


1) Students can be a part of naming Planet X!

As a tribute to Venetia Burney (the little girl who named Pluto at age 11)
there is a new competition in which students can submit a name for a minor
planet. The Committee for Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN) of the International
Astronomical Union, the body responsible for the naming of minor planets and
comets, is supporting this educational and creative initiative and will
consider the winning names for the naming of minor planets. The deadline for
submissions is May 30, 2010.

venetiaburneyphair.blogspot.com/p/competition.html


2) Activity for high school classrooms using real Hubble Space Telescope
images!

We have recently updated an activity that uses the Galaxy and Cosmos Explorer
Tool (GCET) to investigate galaxy evolution. GCET uses real Hubble images of
thousands upon thousands of galaxies and also provides information about the
redshifts (lookback times) of these galaxies. Students can surf through these
awe-inspiring images while gathering data and mimic the actual scientific
process that astronomers use discover how galaxies have evolved over the last 8
billion years. Even if you can’t use it in your classroom, GCET is still a
very cool thing to check out!

www.as.utexas.edu/gcet/

www.jason.org/digital_library/4851.aspx