WOW what a great first day back! I am so impressed with how much we learned today and the great questions you were asking! We will be studying weather and planets after our current unit and I am excited to use what we learned today!

Tonight for your blog will be a three part blog. Please read the directions carefully to ensure you meet all of the expectations!
Scroll down through the entire post. there are THREE parts!

Part 1
Answer two of the following questions:
-Why can’t a rain drop turn to snow?
-Why do snowflakes come from?
-Why isn’t ice slippery
-What do you find inside hail?

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Part 2

Look at the following picture. Make 2 observations and 1 inference.


 Part 3

What are 2 questions that you still have? Explain why you want to know more about these things!
 
On Monday February 27th, we will be attending BOCES Monster Storms Presentation. As part of the presentation there is always a Skype presenter who has a job in the “weather” field. Four students get to talk directly to this presenter ask their question.

This year you will be speaking with, Dr. Frank Marks! Dr. Frank Marks is the Director of Hurricane Research and a Meteorologist for NOAA's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, FL.

Dr. Marks describes his department in NOAA as the department that studies what makes tropical storms do what they do.

Dr. Marks flies the hurricane hunter plans into the storm. Since 1980 he has flown into 75-80 tropical cyclones, of which more than 40 were hurricanes, making over 400 penetrations into hurricane eyes.

For homework you will be using the following links to research about Dr. Marks. You will then prepare a response with 2 new things you learned about Dr. Marks and 2 possible questions you would want to ask him about his job/research.

Links:
http://www.noaa.gov/features/03_protecting/frankmarks_interview.html

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20101202_ams.html

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/marks_bio.html

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Marks/marks_bio.html

 
Today we had a wonderful presentation by Anne Minihan Shaw! She is a judge in Croton, a lawyer in White Plains, and a mom of a student in your grade!
For your homework, due Tuesday, please answer the following questions in detail using as much evidence as you can.

“Good investigators and good prosecutors are just as interested in knowing what they don’t know” What do you think this means? Why would this be important when planning for a trial?

Why do you think “putting together a criminal prosecution is just like building a house”?

List 2-3 questions you still have, and one sentence on why you still wonder about them.

 
Have you ever wondered what the point of math was? Why you had to spend so much time memorizing and studying?

Susan Gaidos wrote the article "Math and our Number Sense" about math in our world and how much we use it and learn it every day!

The first paragraph in her article says "Not all math skills are learned in the classroom. Some of them come naturally. Consider the split-second calculations you make when you estimate the number of empty seats on the school bus or gauge the number of cookies in a cookie jar."

I see math around me all the time! Do you? Check out her article, by clicking on the following link, and sound off here!
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2008/09/math-and-our-number-sense-2/


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