Sunday, January 24, 2010

This week we did a bunch of new things. One of the things that we learned this week was whh we have seasons. Wel the answer to this question is hard but basicly its because the earth has an axis and the earth is on a tilt the sun hits the tilted axis creating the seasons. We also watched a short film about people who went to harvard for collage who didnt not know the answer to this question. Most of them said that the earth gets closer to the sun creating the seasons. Like if hte sun is close its spring and summer and when its far away its like winter and fall. I personaly was shocked that people who went to such a great collage didnt know the answer to the question. I thought that each and every one whould know why we have seasons but none of knew! Things like this are important to life because anyone can be interviewd and kids will most likley see and they think that they are smarter then other people .

Sunday, January 10, 2010

This is the first time blogging since we were away. We have done so many new things!We are in astronamy now and learning about the moon. There are eight diffrent shapes of the moon. The first is called a full moon then its waning gibbous then third quarter then comes the waning cresent and then the new moon then waxing cresent then first quarter then waxing gibbous. And each one has its own shape and its all because of the sun and the earth. They both are two very important things in this prosess. It takes about 28 days and 11 hours fot a whole cycle. The moon moves counterclockwise and so does the earth. This is very important info. And a note is that you can NOT see a full moon during the day time. The earth, moon, and sun all move the moon revolves around the earth and th earth just rotates and the sun also revolves like the moon.