Friday, September 3, 2010

Friday, September 3, 2010

General Announcements:
  • Tue., 9/7: Return signed green checklist.
  • Mon., 9/13: Permission Slips for field trip to Camp Hi-Rock due.
  • Wed-Fri, Sep. 15-17: Prisms field trip to Camp Hi-Rock in Great Barrington, MA: Students should arrive at the school at normal drop-off time on Wed., 9/15 and will return by 3:00 PM on Fri., 9/17. See packet handed out Fri., 9/3 for additional details.
Math:
  • 7th & 8th Grade:
    • Due Tue., 9/7: Work for another 20 min on Math League sheet begun in class today. Make sure to show all work on the separate sheet of white paper. Use additional sheets, prepared the same way (folded into eighths) if necessary.
Social Studies:
Science:
  • Due Tue., 9/7: If not completed already, go over Multiple Intelligences sheet with a parent and have them sign it.
Language Arts:
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Moment of Zen

A Matter of Perspective...

What planet is this? Although seemingly something out of The Little Prince, the planet is actually Earth. More specifically, it is a small part of the Earth incorporated into a four image stereographic "Little Planet " projection. The central fisheye image points down, while the surrounding wide-angle images were taken at a 30 degree tilt and added digitally later. Earth-anchored items surrounding the image center include green grass, dark shadows, and trees near and far. At the image top ("noon" if the planet were a clock) is the well-lit Parkes Radio Telescope dish in New South Wales, Australia. The surrounding sky contains many jewels of the night including the Moon at 9 pm, the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy at 1:30 pm and 7 pm, and the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy at 5 pm. A full field interactive version of this scene can be found here. Photo and explanation lifted from NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day archive, which features and explains an interesting image every day.