Science Co-Op for January-March, 2008

Tuesdays, starting at 11am and going until 12.

Information may change about field trips, please read this often. Also, lets start a conversation on additional classes, trips or presentations to add.

Make notes in your journals about science you like, we will discuss it Tuesday! ALWAYS BRING YOUR JOURNAL and a pencil!





Here is my suggested schedule:

Jan. 15: BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration I
Jan. 22: BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration II
Jan. 29: BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration III
Feb. 5 : BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration IV
Feb. 12: WyEast Labs field trip and presentation
Feb. 19: PHYSICS: Electricity learning cycle special guest Mark Dane
Feb. 26: CLASS DISCUSSION and Field Trip to The Oregon Zoo for a 7pm presentation about Climate Change and Oregon's Spotted Frog, we would need to leave here by 5:30pm
Mar. 4: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: Mealworm or Pillbug behavior studies learning cycle
Mar. 11 ECOLOGY: Bone exploration and Owl Pellet lab
Mar. 18 ECOLOGY: Food web of Barn owl, owl report, keying of rodents in pellets

Mar. 24 MEDICINE: Special guests Brent Sholar and Ivan Sova, both ER physicians

Mar. 31 LAST CLASS tba!

Do you have lessons like these you want to do instead?

PHYSICS: Tonal variation, electromagnetic spectrum and visualizing sound
ECOLOGY: carbon sinks and global warming
ENGINEERING: Technology from INSITU
LANGUAGE SCIENCE: Linguistics
ECOLOGY: Forestry Museum--Martha
ENGINEERING: HoodTech--Erika
ENGINEERING: LEGO Robotics
MEDICINE AND HEALTH: Tissue slides, dissection with special guest Dr. Brent Sholar
ASTRONOMY: Explore moons orbit and Google Moon contest:F-Sun at 2pm field trip to Goldendale to see sunspots
CHEMISTRY: burning exploration or dry ice exploration

I am hoping by March to have all of you attached to research of your own that you may share with all of us!

Call/mail me for further questions!

Jules Burton
541-387-3586, cel: 399-1160