EVENTS CALENDARMay 7 Last Full Moon Supermoon in 2020 May 11- 14 Moon near Jupiter, Saturn and Mars in the Predawn May 22 New Moon - Dark Skies for Star Watching May 23-25 Crescent Moon Near Venus and Mercury at Sunset June 3 Venus Transitions to Morning Sky So Enjoy It in the Evening During May TRY THIS AT HOME1. Observe animals in your home, yard or neighborhood. I made the video below, The Mystery of the Missing Marbles, based on some animals I observed in my yard. National Geographic has a great article on going on an Indoor Safari. iNaturalist has an app called SEEK which can help you identify animals. 2. Submit a photo or video to Charter TV. Charter TV has videos from charter community members for charter community members. There are art lessons from Mary, Laura and Marianne, dance lessons from Wendy, instructions to build a worm composter from Megan, student pictures, videos and more. You can watch these here: chartertv.weebly.com PASSWORD: charter We would love to see your pictures and videos. Submission instructions are here: http://chartertv.weebly.com/submissions.html 3. Explore science online. There are some amazing free online science resources that I have curated for you. You can find them here: charterscience.weebly.com/online-science-resources.html 4. Watch Generation Genius Videos Generation Genius has short fun videos on the topics in the Next Generation Science Standards. A school wide account has been paid for through August 31st. Though you can sign up for a short trial account I would save that for when our paid account expires. To access our school links to Generation Genius videos click here: charterscience.weebly.com/generation-genius.html THE NIGHT SKY THIS MONTH Enjoy Venus in the evening sky after sunset this month. By June it will have moved to the morning sky. If you have a telescope you will be able to see Venus appearing larger each night as it is in the part of its orbit bringing it closer to the Earth. It also will be in its waning phase - moving towards a "Crescent Venus." In fact, in 1610 watching Venus change phases through his telescope gave the famous astronomer Galileo evidence that the Earth orbits the sun instead of the sun orbiting the Earth as was widely believed.
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