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Congratulations to Haley Bradley 8th Grade Teacher of the Year!..........Spring is coming this week!.....................It's the Grand Canyon's 90th Anniversary!  [of becoming a National Park, not of coming into existence!] ............Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ............

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First Day of Spring Friday, March 20th!

Vernal Equinox

Equinox Defined Equinox in a nutshell
     
Equinox -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy The Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes

Windows to the Universe

Vernal (Spring) Equinox FactMonster.com
     
Click: The New Ice Age Cometh!

Guide to the
EQUINOXES and SOLSTICES

The March Equinox Explained

eSky: Autumnal Equinox

 

     

snopes.com: Egg Balancing on Equinox

archaeoastronomy

Nice animation and historical perspective

Egg

A superstition that an egg can be balanced on end on the equinox...

     
Daylight Saving Time         Time Exhibits   Web Exhibits

Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

 

Grand Canyon marks 90th anniversary as national park

 

Grand Canyon National Park Visitor Information

 

Grand Canyon Explorer

 

The Geology of the Grand Canyon

 

Grand Canyon National Park - Welcome to Grand Canyon National Park

 
environment |  
By Charles J. Hanley, AP
Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea...
 
discoveries |  
By David Hall, AP
A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal...
 
 
The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it fertilization of eggs inside a female took place as much as 30...

Stern man with glasses (© Tim McGuire/Comet/Corbis)Do you get it?

The word that drives grammar purists crazy

1,900-year-old chariot discovered in Bulgaria

Huge ice sheet breaks loose in Canadian arctic

'Shocking event' another sign of warming in polar frontier, say scientists

4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August

 

 

'Big bang machine' halted for 2 months

Your spectacular death in a black holeCollider targets massive mystery

Biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’ turned on

Collider targets massive mystery

Science Gone Too Far? // Model of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel (© Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

 

NASA delays Hubble mission until 2009

Cosmic Log: Action urged on asteroids

 

Beauty of Mathematics

NASA spacecraft reveal cause of auroras

Magnetic substorms are energy bursts stemming from charged particles

Skywatcher Mark Urwiller caught this stunning view of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, from his vantage point five miles outside Kearney, Nebraska. Urwiller photographed the light show the evening of May 14, 2005.
 

Game Feeds "orphaned" Dogs: http://freekibble.com/

WORD PUZZLE

FreeRice Game

Lady Liberty's Crown May Reopen to Public

The National Park Service is considering reopening the Statue of Liberty’s crown, which has been closed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Broken Arrow Oklahoma Satellite/Radar Map

 

 

Live Conditions
Union 8th Grade Center

Switch to Celsius

The 8th Grade Weather Station is  

Available online

Weather

Animate Satellite/Radar Map

  Flightstar II Pictures

What I'm flying now

Trisha's Capulin Photos

The Genesis Aircraft Project

What I began training in:

Solo Day Jul 7, 08 pictures

Who's that fat guy in my hat?

Channel 6 News Story [video]

Print Version Story

a frickin' elephant

African Elephant   Thanks to April T.

Two small earthquakes recorded near Chandler OK

Moeritherium, ancient elephant ancestor (© Luci Betti-Nash/Stony Brook University)Gone for good

8 greatest species that have left Earth

 

Scientists reveal why glass is glass

Palindromes

Artist's rendering of Ventastega curonica (© Philip Renne/AP)Fossil find

Most primitive four-limbed creature ever

 

 New FLIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Move your cursor over the screen, and you will have the impression you are flying over the mountains.

Thanks to Dr HG B, III

New Fauna [fantastic photos!]

Thanks to Susan H

This photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer was nicknamed "Unicorn."
   

Entertainment

Looking for MS XL games to post here!

If you have a suggestion, please send it [email] as an attachment.

Here's a site which I think has some:

Excel Games

Phone Numbers Changing, District-Wide

"Galaxy" Song  Thanks to Matt W.!

   

MOAR (Massive Output Arrayed Radar)

for Saturday afternoon May 24, 2008

FreeRice Game

"Here's a "good" game for you. A new U.N. campaign donates 10 grains of rice for each question you answer correctly at http://www.freerice.com. It's already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people.

Click here to read more!

 

How to compute your Semester Grade

New Aurora Borealis Presentation

[BIG file!]

somewhere in time

Thanks to Susan Hollon

Capulin Volcano website

Maps to Capulin

Student Capulin Photos

Math Homework Help

Union District's

[Parent Online]

How to access Parent Online

   
Ask Bill Nye // Brain activity (© Digital Vision/Getty Images)

First dig in 44 years turns up new clues at Stonehenge

Sulfur dioxide closes Volcanoes National Park

Science News

Ask Bill Nye

   

Latest Astro News

green central markgreen

Weather News Items

   
 

How to Take the Semester Exam

 How to Take the Semester Exam

How to Study for the Semester Exam

How to Study for the Semester Exam

   
 

 

DFY

Drug Free Youth

To express a complete thought, you must form a complete sentence.

Dictionary.com Word of the Day

OneLook Word of the Day

A.Word.A.Day Home Page

You are not expressing a complete thought, if you do not form a complete sentence.
  8th Grade Center Daily Class Schedule

 

 
MLA Sample Including Instructions

MLA.org

Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style

School Map

Lockers Map

One-way Halls Map    Thanks to Nader S.

WeatherBug Web site

Check out the 8th Grade Weather Station  

Available online

Powers of Ten Website

 and Hubble Images

[Thanks to Kristin's N.'s Mom!]

HPV shot also guards against 2 other cancers

Girls: Get your vaccination against a specific women's cancer [every 4 yrs].. The first of it's kind

There's no cure, but now there is prevention.  1/4 girls age 14-19 are infected; 1/2 women ages 20-24

Millions In U.S. Infected With HPV

Check out the Tulsa Rowing Club!  Went to nationals this year.

www.tulsarowingclub.org

 

 

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Student Projects
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"There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary code, and those who don't." 

"I don't want to live on in my work.  I want to live on in my apartment."     Woody Allen

The Genesis Aircraft Project

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