Kentucky map reading and more ...

Today, as we began our unit on earth science, we started our 7 Days of Weather observations.  Each day we use NOAA to record the weather and make predictions.  We also spent part of the block with our maps of Kentucky exploring.  It was an old school day but our students do not know much about their own state ... in citizenship science we will try to fix this deficiency.

Students searched for the town with the weirdest name ... Monkeys Eyebrow got a lot of votes!  Also, Black Mountain is still the highest point of elevation in Kentucky ... Stopover is the town furthest east and there are 26 state parks in Kentucky ... it was fun!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_Eyebrow,_Kentucky

Tomorrow in AP Biology we start genetics, prep up our lab on photosynthesis (Monday) and will go over our assigned questions on meiosis.

Journey North reports on the Monarch migration each week.  Monarchs are arriving in Mexico ... hoping for the best and some our visitors from Holland make it.

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/monarch/fall2013/update102413.html