EVENTS CALENDARMarch 7 SBCS Science Festival March 9 Star Party SBMNH 8-10 PM March 10-12 Moon bypasses Mars March 11-17 Brain Awareness Week March 20 SPRING EQUINOX and FULL SUPERMOON!! March 26 Moon near Saturn and Jupiter in Predawn Sky SCIENCE AT CHARTERDon't miss the display of student science projects at the annual SBCS Science Festival this Wednesday, March 6 from 6:00PM - 7:30 PM ASK A SCIENCE TEACHER: If your child is having some last minute difficulty with their science festival project please feel free to email or call me for help. [email protected] 619-993-4339. This project should be a fun learning experience - let me help keep the stress out. THE NIGHT SKY THIS MONTHThis month the moon gives us many exciting shows. It will visit several planets in the morning and will make a pretty picture with Mars on the evenings of March 10 - 12. Furthermore, this month features another Supermoon and it falls on the SPRING EQUINOX!!!! So be sure to see the spring moon this month. LOW TIDESDue to the Full Supermoon there will be some good low tides this month. However, you may notice that they are not as low as they were in January and February. A few factors are causing this: 1. The earth was at perihelion -it's closest point to the sun- on January 3rd, so the sun had a stronger gravitational pull at that time. 2. The moon's closest point was last month (so that was its strongest gravitational pull). So even though this month is also a Supermoon, it is not quite as close as last month. Still, these low tides should provide plenty of intertidal zone to explore. PLUS, watching the moonrise from the beach on Tuesday and Wednesday should be lovely. I encourage you to go to the beach on one of those afternoons or early evenings (even if you can't make the peak low tide times listed below it does take many hours for the tide to come back up). Moonrise is 4:41 PM on Tuesday the 19th and 5:52 PM on Wednesday the 20th. Sunday, March 17, 2019 low tide 2:16pm (-0.99ft) Monday, March 18, 2019 low tide 2:57pm (-1.12ft) Tuesday, March 19, 2019 low tide 3:36pm (-1.03ft) Wednesday, March 20, 2019. low tide 4:14pm (-0.76ft) www.tides.net/california/2398/ TRY THIS AT HOMEBRAIN AWARENESS WEEK ACTIVITIES Brain Awareness Week is March 11-17. The Dana Foundation has many fun activities to help kids learn about the brain. You can find their downloadable puzzles for all ages here: www.dana.org/publications/puzzles/ ACTIVITIES TO CELEBRATE THE SPRING EQUINOX Go on a backyard nature hunt. Use the new app SEEK by iNaturalist which was specifically made for kids. "The app identifies common animals and plants from photographs taken by the user. The information is location specific but does not keep location information on the users, so it's safe for young users. There's a version for adults called iNaturalist, too." - from Encouraging Young Scientists IN THE NEWSSCIENTISTS SCRAMBLE TO KEEP UP WITH EARTH'S MAGNETIC NORTH POLE
The Earth's magnetic north pole affects everything from our compasses to the effects of solar flares. This article talks about why it is changing and how that affects us. www.dogonews.com/2019/2/27/scientists-scramble-to-keep-up-with-fast-moving-north-magnetic-pole
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