Foam Board installed by students!

Thanks to the Alma Mae and Harry Wardell Classroom Grant Awards, students from all class periods were able to put closed cell polystyrene foamboard in the large single pane windows in room 124. The grant also provided new energy kits from the NEED curriculum, available online at www.NEED.org. Thanks to all the learners and community members who help make science classes more interesting.

Guest Speakers for 8Blue Science

Science learners will be able to here from local experts this November. As a follow-up to the Climate Status Investigations, Marc Singer, Meteorologist for the Billings NOAA office will share insight and information about local weather data. Then, Chuck Creatin, featured in the Billings Gazette about his solar energy business on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. We welcome area professionals to our classroom- they truly make science classes relate to the real world.

Tie Dye Day at Riverside

Poll Everywhere

Create your own sms poll at Poll Everywhere

Great New School Year!

Students are being challenged to create fabulous Biography Tab Posters on Famous Scientists! Complete directions as well as a rubric for evaluation are available to help guide each student towards as many points as possible. This poster will allow students to integrate art skills, computer skills such as internet research, writing skills, oral presentation skills, and technology skills such as using Google Earth to demonstrate where the scientists is from. By listening to the classroom presentations, learners will gain exposure and knowledge about many scientists. This helps meet one of the key standards in science: students should learn the history and philosophy of science.

Calculating Speed with Paper Airplanes

During February, learners had a fun way to practice math and science skills! Students were allowed to go to www.funpaperairplanes.com and find a design to create. We were able to measure the distance the planes went using the metric system and then record the time with a stopwatch in seconds. Dividing the distance by the time will give students the average speed. Our time only allowed us to have one practice throw and two trials, but students should understand that more trials certainly would have been valuable to validate average speed. This helps support the concepts on speed and motion taught in Chapter 3 of the textbook. Practicing the math skills in science class gives students a real world application of sports statistics. It's useful that they practiced the skills before the Montcas test in March.