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. 

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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!