Planetarium Intern Gets Third Place in NASA Contest

Enterprise HS students were in the USA today news. Ronnel Boettcher (Also a Planetarium Volunteer for two years) and Cory Smith of Enterprise High School in Redding, Calif., took third place for "Astronomy: No Boundaries."

CSI / HOL Schedule Currently

Great Fieldtrip to the Hands On Lab at Shasta College. I was so proud of all you CSI'ers!
I have modified our schedule below

May 5th

8am --noon: HOL at Planetarium, 8th Grade Sequoia Middle School for Scaling the Solar System

May 12th

8am -- 3:00pm Magnetism Lab - Burney Middle School

At 2:30pm CSI Awards at SCOE Board Meeting, This is in the upstairs Meeting Room here at 1644 Magnolia Avenue

Parents WELCOMED!

May 19th

8am to 2:30pm 

 12:30 to 2:00

Magnetism Lab – APL

CSI

8am set up LEGO stations - Simple Machines...free play isn't always educational. We will learn that with control activities we can lead even preschoolers through six interactive learning stations in ENGINEERING.

9am LEGO stations with preschoolers - LETS DO THIS!

10am – cut 30 Foot Felt Sun for Solar System Hands on Lab, run through labs, materials and supplies needed. Clipboards, design your binders, Magnetism inserts for take home reading.

11am – Chemistry review of this field for ways to integrate into new HOL offering in Periodic Elements and Star Death and Birth

Noon – today’s session complete....take home reading on Magnetism!

CSI - Schedule:
8:00 am Introductions
lTurn on Digistar 3, walk through on how to operate, use wireless palm
lSet out Model Academy science stations
lWatch show – Cowboy Astronomer
lGo through Magnetism Lab, Check against travel lab – what is missing?
lWatch show – Two Small Pieces of Glass
lGo through Solar System Lab
lRobotics - LEGO Mindstorm NXT
lCut out 30 foot Sun and Glue for Walk the Solar System activity
lPeriodic Table of Elements - Activities

Periodic Table of Elements

Review of new activities on Elements for station rotation
-Bring at least three elements next week

CSI - Community Science Interns

We will begin this week with scaling the solar system!
Here is a picture of deep space. Can you tell what is a new star and what is an old star?

Next Year

What a great first start to our CSI program and next year promises to be even better!

Stay tuned for information on our next meeting.

Thank you,

David

CSI - APL to receive awards at SCOE Board Meeting

Thank you CSI! you made me proud
Mr. Ewart

May Events - Make a Comet with Dry Ice and more

CSI join our online Space Class!

Go to www.spaceclass.org and start the missions.
Go into "virtual lessons" and select "Orion's Path"
there are 42 lessons in this theme alone so pace yourself, a rule-of-thumb is to do two to four video sessions per day when you can.

April 8, 2009

Today we spent a good portion of the time merging and editing the PowerPoint Presentation on Seeds in Space. You can see our working version at the website.
Click here.

We also watched "400 Years of the Telescope" A journey of science, technology and thought.

We did some brainstorming on last weeks field trip and shared out ways to improve the activities.

The students took a pre-assessment on What are your ideas on the Earth? and we will then perform observations and experiments on each in the weeks to come.

Some students took projects home to work on or build over the next few weeks since we are not meeting till formally till May.

CSI in action

Two Assignments:
Create a 2 to 5 PowerPoint slide presentation on what you have done with the Seeds in Space science experiment. We will take all the presentations and blend them together for one presentation to be showcased on the blogspot and to APL School.
Email me your draft prior to next weeks class.

Reflections on Wednesday's science stations and field activities.
Provide a paragraph for each:
1. your thoughts of the program from the planetarium star gazing, building star clock, planisphere
2.the activities you ran,
3.finally our "make a space game" in the park ideas
Prepare to share orally next meeting.

Mr. E

Mark your calendar!!!
April 8th regular class session
April 15th Class canceled, STAR testing week, spring break, etc.
April 22nd Optional, can volunteer to help with shows for young ones during Week of the Young Child
April 29th Mr. Ewart out of town
May 6th resume regular class session

First CSI outdoor science activity stations !!!

Stations: Comet Building, UV beads and electromagnetic spectrum, Airplane, sun clock, bubbles, night time viewer for flashlight, star clock and planisphere.