Sky observations

At night I have seen a lot of different things in the sky. Some are more interesting than others. One thing I have seen is the phases of the moon change. They have been waning so it is not as big. Another observation is the meteor shower. This was sweet in the sky. The third observation I have seen is the big dipper and little dipper. With the map I can now see these things. Also have seen a shooting star a few times. Last thing is how the moon seems to glow up against the clouds. It looks cool because it lights up the entire sky. I like looking at the sky at night. It is interesting.

Nature Trail #2

On the nature trail I saw many new things. One thing I saw was the trail at the front that goes down to the pond. This was all blocked offer before. I also saw some painted signs that had not been painted before. The 3rd thing was the new land that we had donated to the trail. This was interesting. The 4th thing was 2 wood peckers.. I have never seen one before. The last new thing that I saw was the color of the leafs changed. They are not yellow anymore and great leafs.

The trail can be used for many things. Here are 5 educational things that you can get out of the trail.
1: Teach kids of natural and un natural plants
2: allow kids to get out of the school, and see nature
3: learn about the different types of habitats
4: Teaching the students about animals that live in the woods.
5: allowing students to wander around and get nice fresh air.

The trail can also be used by the community. This would be fun and educational. Here is how:
1: could create a haunted woods for halloween to make money
2: allow botany groups around the town to use it to experiment with plants
3: gives advertisement for some companys
4:cross country team can use it to run
5: bring together the community to help and clean it up.

My NASA page

I uploaded pictures and videos on to my nasa page. They were about since in hunger, robots, and carbon. It helped me to learn more about the things that they use in NASA. NASA would be a fun place to work because it doesn't just deal with the sky. The pictures on this site are very intersting. They show the sky, space, and other awesome types of things in the atmosphere. Here is my URL:
http://mynasa.nasa.gov/portal/site/mynasa

my username is Mharris

Space Blog

1st reading:
I learned that scientist really rely on the shape and size of stars. Not only their brightness. This is important to discover all different things in the sky,
I got a 67 on the quiz.
I foudn out how to do a star simulation.

2nd reading:
I read about the sun. I learned that the sun is dangerous in a few ways. You should not look directly into the sun. Also that there are sunspots in which are darker spots on the sun. Also I learned that the sun is just a giant star. It is very bright and it creates a lot of heat.
I got a 100% on the quiz.
I learned how to simulate with the sun by using a pair of binoculars.

3rd reading:
I read about Dark Energy. This is speeding up its expansion. It is a big suprise to astronomers. It creates expansion in the universe. It is a bunch of stored energy in the universe that truly does affect us.
33% on the quiz
The project is to see if we can identify objects in a dark room. I would be able to as some things are simple to identify. But on the other hand some things I wouldn't be able to bec ause I don't know everything about their shape and size.

4th Reading:
X-Ray detectors
This is used to determine the brightness in the stars and other items. It also collects different types of energy data. This would be very useful to the astronomers. If it wasn't for these detectors than they would have to do this in a different way.
Quiz: 67%
There is no try this on this ad. However I think that it would be fun to use one of these detectors to see what all you could learn out of it.

Nature trail Project

So far with my project I have gotten people recruited. I also have made signs, and advertised for the clean up. We talked with mrs. Towsley and learned more about natural and un natural plants. Soon I will know more that will help us out in making the trail a better place.

bio bottle

My bio bottle is ment to test the water temps and quality of a land area without light. I will also see the do of the bottle and what types of things grow without sunlight. So far I have gotten some grass, and my water temp is in the low 20's.

nature trail post

15 things i saw in the trail are:
mushrooms
leafs
poison ivy
birds
squirrls
people
alge
water
dirt
worms
a snake
insects
cat tails
and rocks.

The trail is important to eaton rapids because it helps habitat life. It gives the animals a place to live. Also is a good source of learning for students. If more people went there the trail would be amazing.