New Planet discovered outside our Solar System

Students, after all the learning we have just participated in during our Space Unit, I thought you’d be fascinated to read about this.   Please post a comment on my blog no later than Wednesday telling me what you think about this new planet AND I want to know what you would have named it if you found it.  I found this part really amazing : The pictures also reveal a star in its youth — 60 million years old compared to our sun, which is 4 billion years old — which will provide a wealth of information for astronomers keen to establish the chemical make-up of planetary systems and how they form. WOW!!!  

Space Review

Hello Students

Congratulations on your Science unit on Space. I hope you enjoyed the journey with Bill Nye as much as I did. Tonight or tomorrow night for homework I need you to go to Ms Yick’s blog to continue the review process of the unit.  As we discussed in class today, I want you to write a 200-400 word post about the Space Unit. Now that I have looked at Ms Yick’s blog, I think that by following some of her questions as guidelines you might find this process easier. If not, just stick with the format on the board in class.

“The most exciting/interesting things I learned/know about Space are…”