Events CalendarFebruary 8 - 11 Low Tide in the late afternoon Thursday. February 9 LAST CHARTER LOW TIDE EXPLORATION (until December) Friday February 10 Full Moon and Penumbral Lunar ECLIPSE also National Umbrella Day Sunday February 26 New Moon Science FairSanta Barbara Charter School hosts its All School Science Fair on the evening of Thursday March 16. You can find many resources to help your child with their project at our website charterscience.weebly.com under parent resources. (If you know of any other resources I should include please email me [email protected]) I encourage you to invest in a sturdy display board, reusable adhesive dots, and some large clips. The reusable adhesive dots will allow you to re-use the display board without ripping the backing. My daughter used the same display board 8 times while at Charter and now that she is in junior high, my son (a second grader) will be using it for his first science fair project. Clipping the wings of the tri-fold down help keep them from ripping during transport. Storing it flat in the back of a closet keeps it safe until needed. If you want to be even more economical/environmentally friendly you can find instructions for making a display board from recycled card board here: http://craftingagreenworld.com/2013/10/21/back-school-ideas-project-display-board-upcycled-cardboard/ Low TideFebruary is your last chance to enjoy significant low tides at a convenient time until December. Low tides for this month: Wednesday February 8 at 2:22 PM PST / -1.1 ft. Thursday February 9 at 3:02 PM PST / -1.2 ft. Friday February 10 at 3:39 PM PST / -1.1 ft. Saturday February 11 4:16 PM PST / -0.8 ft CHARTER FAMILY TIDE POOL EXPLORATION: Charter families are invited to join me for a low tide exploration on Thursday, February 9 at 3:15 pm at Campus Point/UCSB. I will have buckets and field guides for identifying tide pool creatures. I recommend wearing rain boots and a jacket. I will be there rain or shine. If you text or email me your plans to attend, I can be on the lookout for you. ([email protected] or 619-993-4339) This is not an official school sponsored event. DIRECTIONS: Exit Highway 101 northbound at Highway 217. Follow it to the end where it enters the UCSB gate. Go around the big circle and turn on Lagoon Rd. At the end of Lagoon Rd (before the signs that don't allow you to drive further) there is a large parking lot on your left. Read the sign by the pay machine- a few of the stalls are for beach access from 7:30am-5pm on weekdays. The Night Sky this Month This month we will be able to see part of the lunar eclipse from 5:42 pm - 6:53 on Friday February 10. You will have to pay close attention though because it is only a penumbral (the faint outer shadow of the earth) eclipse so it is hard to tell the difference from a regular full moon. It is still worth looking out for because if you watch carefully it gives you a sense of the motion of the earth and the moon. You can see a simulation of what it will look like here. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/santa-barbara. An eclipse occurs when the sun, moon, and earth are aligned. Most of the time the moon is about 5 degrees off of the plane of the earth and the sun which is enough that eclipses do not occur all the time. (This video explains why we have eclipses and why they don't happen every month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgbK2FZFFd ) Because of this lineup in February, there is also a partial solar eclipse on February 26. However it will not be visible in North America. We WILL be able to see the total solar eclipse on August 21. This will be the first total solar eclipse visible in the United States since 1979. I will let you know more about that as we get closer to that date. Science and Technology at the Central LibraryMAKER SPACE MONDAYS: Learn 3D design, print your creations on our 3D printer, and tinker with technology every Monday from 4-7pm at Central Library. Open to all ages! STEAM SUNDAYS: Central Library has a new program on Sundays at 2 pm for elementary school students that celebrates all things STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math)! Come experiment with science, build with Legos, tinker with technology, and have tons of fun with us! This program is for children 7 years and older. |
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