Investigated the differences between Mars and Earth through in class exercise.Discussed and created data table listing physical/geological differences between Mars and Earth including volcanoes,surface terrain, moons and presence of water or life.

Investigated the differences between Mars and Earth through in class exercise.Discussed and created data table listing physical/geological differences between Mars and Earth including volcanoes,surface terrain, moons and presence of water or life.

Introduced basic concepts of plate tectonics, emphasizing the role of mantle convection in the movement of oceanic plates.Introduced the concept of subsection zone and located places on the globe where they occur.

Discussed the formation and elemental composition of the earth with emphasis on the inner and outer cores.Investigated latent heat of early earths gravitational formation and ongoing radioactive decay as sources of energy that drive the earth's magneto-dynamo and sustain the earth's magnetosphere.

Hunter took a quiz on the concepts thus far. He scored an 87% on it! He is a very smart kid!

Student will continue work on landforms. Today we researched coastal landforms in different areas. Searched information on Lake Worth Lagoon and other coastal landforms for student booklet project.

We looked up four different missions into space throughout the years, Sputnik 1, Galileo, Insight and Ladee, where they went, who sent them up and what they were looking for.
We then went over lunar and solar eclipses, the difference between the two and the three cases partial, total and annular eclipses. I showed him a visualization online of each type.
The last few minutes were spent going over the topics that we have covered thus far, and what will be on his quiz Friday.

I substituted fro Diana. We talked a little about astronomy and science, then discussed inventions Bobby and I have been kicking around since last school year. After outlining the business plan for one of his inventions, we went to the computer lab to do some research on the state of the art in his invention market.

We had a small discussion on the exploration of the Rover on Mars, and what they are looking for.

Today, Hunter was required to chose a planet, and conduct some calculations regarding this planet (equation of elliptical path if sun represented the center, volume, surface area, and his weight on this planet). Some of the information necessary to research for these calculations were the farthest and closest distance Uranus is from the Sun, its radius (distance from the core to the surface), and the gravitational acceleration in meters per second squared. We discussed the units based on calculations, and scientific notation to simplify very large numbers.
We began speaking of space exploration (to research upcoming space exploration is his homework), and started talking about Mars. We did some calculations to find the time it would take to fly to Mars traveling 20 km/sec (what was said to be the fastest traveling spacecraft).