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CROTON-HARMON UFSD
Parental/Guardian Permission Form
I _________________________________ give permission ____________________________________
(Name of Parent/Legal Guardian) (Name of Student)
to attend the following trip: 7th Grade Trip to Club Getaway on October 3, 2007.
Transportation is provided by the Croton-Harmon UFSD.
Trip Itinerary and Requirements
• This is a full day trip. Students will return to PVC at about 8:30 pm.
• The cost per student is $35. Checks should be made payable to
• “Croton-Harmon UFSD.” Please write “Club Getaway” in the memo section.
• Lunch and dinner will be provided.
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Parent or Legal Guardian Date
Mr. A.
Should we copy the article or the website ot the name of the article? Do tell.
Me
Please put in this information:
1. The name of the article and author. If you found it online, please add a link to it as well. Otherwise, say where you found it.
Hi Mr. Ardito! I wasn't sure if i was supposed to make an account or not, so I did. ummmmm, I hope this works! Thanks!
HOLA!
Thanks Mr. A.
testing testing 1.2.3 ok i think it works
yup i got it
hey Mr. Ardito! I wasn't sure how soon I was supposed to publish the article, so if it is wrong, tell me please! anyway, here it is:
My Article was called Scientists: Cold Neptune has a warm spot. I can’t find who wrote it, but I found it on CNN.com. It is about how they found a warm spot on Neptune. The warm spot is about 18 degrees warmer than anywhere else on the planet, which averages colder than 320 degrees below zero. The warm spot is found on Neptune’s south pole. Neptune years are the equivalent to 165 earth years; so obviously, the seasons are long, about 40 years. Right now, Neptune’s south pole has had summer for about 40 years. So that means that the sunlight it a lot stronger that it usually is. But because Neptune gets only gets 1/900th of the amount of sun that earth does. But even with such a small change, it has a significant impact on Neptune. It defrosted the methane that is usually trapped as ice in Neptune’s atmosphere. It releases gas, so that the South Pole has 8 times more gas than anywhere else in the planet’s atmosphere. They don’t say in the article, but I guess that the methane heats up the area. I’m not sure though.
I thought that this article was very interesting. It taught me a lot about the atmosphere of Neptune. Also, I learned about the seasons of Neptune. It sounded a lot to me like natural global warming, which is weird because humans weren’t causing it. I also thought that the statistics were interesting. For instance, Neptune years are equivalent to 165 earth years, and that Neptune gets 1/900th of the sunlight that earth does. It really surprised me how cold Neptune is. 320 degrees below freezing is well, FREEZING! It also surprised me that 18 degrees could do so much to the atmosphere of Neptune. It can defrost methane, and release a lot of gas.
I want to know more about other gasses that are defrosted because of the temperature change. I also want to know how gas freezes on Neptune and where it goes when it is frozen. Because since it is a solid, shouldn’t it be pulled to the center? And isn’t Neptune made of gas? Is there any liquid on Neptune? And where does it go? I know the last couple of questions were off topic, but I want to know. I want to know more about the other gasses that make up Neptune, and what percentage of the planet is made up of methane, and what percentage is made up of the other gasses. I would also like to learn more about what else the seasons do to the planet, besides make it hotter or colder. Will the same thing happen to the North Pole in 40 years? What about the middle of the planet? I wonder what else Neptune goes through in it’s seasons. It seems like a pretty cool planet.
Article report by, Orangesnailsarecool!
By The Way, here is the site name of the article that i found: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/09/21/neptune.ap/index.html?eref=rss_space
Science News 9-26-07
The Book of Life
By Emily Sohn
The article I read is about a new website that has all different types of creatures in the world. It seems really cool to me because if I have a project I can go to www.eol.org and learn about a new creature. I also like it because it seems cool to look page to page about creatures I never even seen before. Some of the questions I would ask is how many creatures do they have on their website and which ones are the most recent.
What I expect to see on the website is lots of pictures of the creatures they found so I can be warned about the dangerous ones and look out for the interesting ones. I think this article was helpful because now when I look on the website I can get closer to the world and what it produces. I think you should read this article and look at the website because it may seem useful to you to.
www.sciencenewsforkids.com
www.eol.com
Weekly Science Report #2
By Isabel Rothberg
Officials Confirm Meteorite but Question Sickness Claims
BBC News
Officials Confirm Meteorite but Question Sickness Claims came from cnn.com. No specific author was listed.
Experts recently confirmed that over the past weekend, a meteorite crashed into southern Peru. However, they have yet to confirm the claims that the fumes sickened 200 people. An unnamed geologist has confirmed that it was a “rocky meteorite” based on the pieces analyzed. He also said that the water in the crater may have boiled for a short period of time and the vapors released may have been the cause of the sickness. However a team of doctors found no evidence that the meteorite sickened people.
In my opinion, this article was fascinating and intriguing. I love medical mysteries, and this one I thought was really interesting. The idea that the fumes released from something that fell from space seems so sci-fi, which is part of the reason I liked this article. It seems totally probable that something like that could happen, and will happen, no doubt, in the future. Honestly, I have no questions, I felt like this article told me everything I wanted to know.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/09/19/peru.meteorite.ap/index.html?eref=rss_space
Weekly Science Report #2
Finally The New Range Of iPods
By Ava Powchik
This week I got my article from PageFlakes. The link is from MSNBC.com. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20609739/site/newsweek/?from=rss. The article is about the new iPod nano and the new iTouch. The new iPod nano is just like the old version but now plays video with a 24 hour battery charge. The iPod Touch, like the already popular iPhone, has a touch screen and you are able to purchase iTunes products. You also can connect to the internet browser, Safari.
I was interested in this article because I have an iPod and my dad has the iPhone and iPod. I was interested also towards the end of the article that they are lowering the 8-gigabyte price two hundred dollars.
I think the article was very interesting if you are interested in iPods and Apple products. It talked a lot about the crazes of the iPhone, iTouch and new iPod Nano. I found it interesting because I like knowing about the new technology available.
I think they could of said a little bit more about the iTouch. I’ve heard it was also a phone but the article did not say it was a phone or not.
I hope I did this right! (And I hope you don't mind that I wrote report by me, i like anonymity ) Well, here goes nothing! (Clicks publish)
Houston, We Have Lift Off!
1st ‘Interplanetary Spaceship’ Blasts Off
Story By Marcia Dunn, Appeared in AOL News
Report By MEEEEE!!!!
http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/first-interplanetary-spaceship-blasts/20070927131609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Just after sunrise on Thursday morning, Florida’s Cape Canaveral gets a space age wake up call, because NASA’s Dawn space probe was launched in the early morning of September 27, 2007. This spacecraft is like none before. It will travel to the dry and rocky asteroid known as Vesta, and spend some time there. Then it will come out of orbit from around Vesta and go to the icy dwarf planet called Ceres. The probe won’t reach Vesta until 2011, and will not reach Ceres until 2015. But it’s defiantly worth the wait, since this mission is the first one of its kind.
I am very exited about the advances we are making in the field of space exploration. It is awesome that we will finally land on an asteroid, and visit a dwarf planet closer to the sun than most (like Pluto). And the fact that we are going to TWO celestial bodies, not just one, is amazing. I was a little concerned about what happens after Dawn is done circling Ceres, considering the fact that not even including the rocket the price tag is $357 million! But that money sure went somewhere. It went to the 3 ion engines, which are really cool. (Yes, I know I’m a space nut…) Like the chief engineer Marc Rayman said, “Even "Star Wars" had only two ion engines with its T.I.E. Fighters”
Wow, orangesnailsarecool! I almost did that article!
Weekly Science Report
Article source- sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20040107/Note2.asp
Name of article- A Hangout for Elusive Blue Whales
Author- Susan Milius, January 7th 2004
I thought that the main thing about the article that I read was that scientist made a very amazing discovery when they found out a new hangout for the giant blue whale. In 1900 to 1960 whale hunters killed about 97% of blue whales. Now there is only up to 700-1400 blue whales left including the fact that there was a law made that it was illegal to hunt blue whales. I think that the reason that it was such a great discovery is because now scientists can find out more about the blue whales.
I thought that the article was pretty good. The article sort of caught my attention and was really easy to understand the text which was helpful.
There was only one thing that surprised me and that was that 97% of blue whales were once killed between 1900-1960. That’s almost a full 100%.
I would probably want to only know that how big can a blue whale grow up and how much it fully weighs.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/09/21/neptune.ap/index.html?eref=rss_space
CNN SCIENCE AND SPACE
Scientists: Cold Neptune has a warm Spot
Neptune is one of the coldest planets in our solar system. Scientists in France, in the ESO, the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the southern Hemisphere, found out that the south pole on Neptune has been in the sun for about 40 years. The scientists discovered the South Pole was 18 degrees warmer than the rest of the planet, which is 320 degrees below zero!
This article was interesting to me because Neptune is one of my favorite planets and that I do not now much about. I learned mana lot of facts about Neptune like: 1 year there is 165 years on Earth. I am curious to know if the planet gets any warmer; could there be life on Neptune? Is Neptune’s increase in temperature going to affect us? I think it would be very interesting if something appeared there. I liked this article, and learned a lot.
Weekly Science Report #2
U.N. Chief Urges Fast Action on Global Climate Change
The New York Times
By Warren Hoge
Published September 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/world/25nations.html?ex=1348372800&en=28ffe2df09dc2daf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a meeting of world leaders on Monday scientific evidence of climate change was sound and that the time to act was now. “Today, the time of doubt has passes”, he told delegates in the packed general assembly hall. He said that “the scientists have very clearly outlined the severity of the problem,” and the world should know enough to act. Mr. Ban added on that failure to act would bring “devastating” consequences and that affordable technology most certainly exists to address the problem promptly.
In my opinion, this article on to act now to climate change was very interesting and most certainly fascinating. The subject of acting now is something that we should have been doing a large number of years ago. I believe that if we don’t stop littering, polluting, using to much gas, electricity, or leave running water on to long, this planet will be a mess in an amount of years. Also another reason that I enjoyed this article very much is that the whole idea of climate change and acting now is very interesting to me. Honestly, I do not have any questions on this subject. This article that I read told me everything I wanted to know.
Weekly science report #2
by Andrew Judge
"the sun"
The sun is the star closest to earth. Even though it may seem big it is really a yellow dwarf star.
The sun has inspired a lot of mythological stories in cultures like Native Americans, Ancient Egyptians, the Aztecs in Mexico and more. The sun is 92.96 million miles away from the sun. 92.96 million miles is known as an astrological unit and it's used in measuring how far other planets or stars are from the earth.
my question is how bright is the sun because it's 92.96 million miles away and it is still to bright to look at? This article looked good to me because I'm very into space and space related things so when I saw it was about the sun it sounded good.
I got my info. from
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sun
hi mr ardito
Response to MaDdScIeNcEgAl94s Report:
Oops, I accidentally pressed "publish". This is what I really meant to post:
Response to MaDdScIeNcEgAl94s report:
I thought this report was interesting. I think it is so weird how long it will take this space probe to reach the asteroid. Four years! Wow.....I would hate to be traveling for that long. I really dont have any suggestions or tips, I thought this report was written very clearly.
Um... Mr. ardito,
If your up and reading this I kinda did the extra credit thing but I did for group nine. I'll tell you in the morning. Um... goodnight
10-9-07
Airplane reflction
I thought the airplane project was ok. It was kind of weird to do it because we are in the process of learning how living things work and then we do this new expierement. I thought it was fun because I learned how to make a airplane and then play with it. I think that this project was nessacery because it helped us learn how scienctist figure out things and how we need to do different steps to learn something new. I also thought this was fun because it was just cool to learn and play at the same time.
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