Join the Great Backyard Bird Count! Your DATA matters!

http://gbbc.birdcount.org/

For the second year in a row SCIENTIST need your help!  Have you got 15 minutes to go outside and count the number of birds you see?  If you answered yes, then you can participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count!
To learn more about it, click the link below:
http://gbbc.birdcount.org/about/ 

Go here to sign up!
http://gbbc.birdcount.org/

Let me know if you are participating! Send me an email of your DATA!

Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow this Sunday?

Sunday is National Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil is the most famous weather forecaster in history!  If he sees his shadow then he predicts 6 more weeks of winter.  Will his prediction be correct?  Check out the article and video below to learn more about him and Groundhog Day!

US Today


Click here to watch a video about Groundhogs: http://letsfindout.scholastic.com/Sample/2012-Groundhog-Day?eml=TNL/e/20140201////Feb_Update//students/35_WID_V2///&ym_MID=1516668&ym_rid=22767073

Click here to learn more about Punxsutawney Phil : http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/02/01/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-winter-spring-forecast/5077455/

Have You Ever Seen a SNOW ROLLER?

  What's a snow roller? Click the link below the picture to watch a video and find out!

Click here to watch a video http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-snow-rollers-bizzare-winter-storm-20140128,0,238995.story#axzz2rjw7hgJV

Make A Rain Gauge Out of Materials You Already Have at Home!

Click here to watch the video http://safeshare.tv/w/SUTHxbAzDQ

THE WORLDS LARGEST WIND FARM! AWESOME WAY TO GO GREEN!

Earthsky.org

SEE THE WHITE BOX IN THE PICTURE ABOVE?  THE PICTURE BELOW IS THE WHITE BOX ENLARGED TO SHOW DETAILS.  THE WHITE DOTS ARE THE TOPS OF THE WIND TURBINES.

Earthsky.org

You can see Saturn Sunday morning before dawn (sunrise)

Check it out!

Check out the ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES orbiting Earth!

Does it remind you of the movie 
Wall-E?

Space.com

All those yellow dots are artificial satellites that humans have placed in orbit around Earth. We have got to find a solution! 

CHECK OUT THIS NEW CREATURE FOUND IN A REEF CAVE OF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA!

livescience.com

How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of a TOOTSIE POP?

Check us out!  We followed the scientific methods to answer this serious question!
347 licks, 286 licks, 450 licks, 703 licks! 
Our CONCLUSION: The world may never know!

Force and Motion FUN!! Let's Make a Marshmallow Launcher

Here is what you will need.

Materials you will need.
- Marshmallows
- A plastic spoon
- 2 Pieces of duck tape
- 4 Rubber bands
- 9 Popsicle sticks

Your mission, if you accept it, is to build a launcher that will launch marshmallows into your partners mouth.  Good luck!

What is CENTRIPETAL FORCE?

Check out the cool examples of CENTRIPETAL FORCE!
What is CENTRIPETAL FORCE?

Think you have seen everything? Check out this fish!

Think like a scientist - Where in the ocean does this fish live?  How can it grow so big?  Why don't we see more of them?  What are some of your questions?

Check out this video of an electric eel!  It can make enough electricity to light a Christmas tree!

Check out this cool trick you can do at home and it tastes yummy!

What a cool way to change the state of matter!  Are they adding heat or taking a heat?
Try it at home.  Send me a picture of your experiment!  Email me  szwahr@brenhamk-12.net

WELCOME TO BMS!!

What did you do this summer that was fun?

I spent a week at the beach for my daughters wedding.  While I was there, a nest of sea turtles hatched!  It was so much fun watching them scramble toward the ocean!  117 baby sea turtles made their way to the ocean.  

Did you know sea turtles are considered endangered!  That means that they may go extinct in the near future.  Can you image a world without sea turtles? We can adopt a sea turtle or a nest and try to save them.

Go to http://www.defenders.org/sea-turtles/basic-facts to learn more about sea turtles. 

blog.seewinter.com

Go to http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/wild-detectives-kids/wd-ep6-turtlerace/ to watch a video and solve a mystery about sea turtles

Check out the PANSTARRS comet tonight!

EarthSky.org

The PANSTARRS comet will be visible all month in the west just after sunset.  Use binoculars, a telescope, or your awesome eyes to check it out.  Here how to find it: right after the sun sets, find the crescent moon in the west, look at the chart above to find its location on each date in March.  

Check out the links below to learn more about comets.

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/comets.htm
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/comets.html
http://kids.discovery.com/quizzes/space/asteroid-comet-or-meteor

Leave me a comment: Did you see the comet?  What did it look like?  What is a comet?  Tell me an interesting fact about a comet.  Show me what an awesome scientist you are!  Please leave only your initials and color group.

Bonus Question: Test 12-12-12!!!

Earthsky.com

If mom or dad say its ok.....go outside Thursday night before you go to bed and see if you can see any meteors!   I am hoping to see lots of falling stars aka meteors! I have a lot of wishes I need to make!!
Bonus Question:  What invisible force field protects us from meteors, comets, and other dangerous space objects?  Leave me a comment and only use your initials and color group.  :)

Did You See the Bright Light in the Sky Friday???

Channel 13 News - Houston, Texas

CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT!      http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8911834
What do you think it was?  Leave me a comment.  Use only your initials and color group. 

What do you call a landform created by the wind but instead of sediments this landform is made out of trash!

 - A pile of garbage!!

Discovery News

  According to Discovery News - Biologist Erin Zylstra mapped and added up all the wind-dispersed plastic trash bags and latex balloons in two protected parts of the Saguaro National Park in Arizona. She was surprised to discover that these particular kinds of very mobile trash outnumbered desert tortoises and western diamondback rattlesnakes. Like in the oceans, the bags and balloons pose potential threats to wildlife.

 There is more trash bags and latex balloons in the desert than turtles and rattlesnakes!  What?!!!!
It sounds like one day we will see new features on Earth surface made out of trash - YUCK!!  
Question?  What is plastic made of?  What can we do to stop it?  What would you name the trash landform?
Leave me a comment and use only your initials.  Use scientific words because you are a scientist!

What are the Northern Lights?

Check out this video of the Northern Lights...also called Aurora Borealis!

What causes the Northern Lights?  Leave me a comment.  Remeber to publish anonymously and leave only you initials and color group!  :)