Celebrating Pi Day! :-)

Click on this screenshot to go watch a Flocabulary rap video about pi

Unfortunately, I don't have lyrics for this BEAUTIFUL art project:


This kid kept going!


Fun song by Jonathan Mann

LYRICS:

Pi day
getting down on pi day
everybody getting all euclidian up in here
pi day
dance and stuff on pi day
ratio circumfrence diameter

Do like circles? I like circles!
And you know once a year
We can celebrate a circle's circumference ratio to diameter
March 14th
March 14th
this is the nerdiest of days
I will celebrate and dance a jig
In the nerdiest of ways

3 1 4 1 5

Pi day
getting down on pi day
everybody getting all euclidian up in here
pi day
dance and stuff on pi day
ratio circumfrence diameter

circle here and circle there
i can find the circumference
and if i
didn't have pi
i wouldn't stand a chance
March 14th
March 14th
Let's say a joyful prayer
See a circle be a circle
You don't wanna be a square

VIDEO: Understanding a TV Weather Forecast

Questions:
What are high and low pressure systems? And what kinds of weather do they bring?
What's an "isobar" and what do they mark?
How do the isobars show how windy it will be?
What's a front and how are they marked on a weather map? How are cold and warm fronts differentiated?

What will our fieldtrip be like?

Check out the "History is Fun" website, the official website of Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center. I specifically recommend the following:
The Jamestown Chronicles
Quadricentennial Minutes
Passionality Profiles
Anna's Adventures
From Matchlock to Flintlock

HOMEWORK:

1. Watch at least 2 short videos for the links above. Then write for at least 10 minutes in your School Journal about what you're looking forward to and what you expect to see and do on our fieldtrip.
2. Revisit the Jamestown/Yorktown Guidelines and make sure you understand and remember it all! Also, you can print out a new copy of the get-ready checklist if you need one.
3. Watch at least 1 Jamestown "Digital Story," a video made up of still images and narration, so that you have some idea of the project you'll be starting next week. You'll find the VA Studies> VA: Jamestown> Jamestown Fieldtrip Digital Stories.

VIDEO: Super Cool Math Museum!

VIDEO: Bill Nye on the Atmosphere

Why is it colder at the tops of mountains if those mountain tops are closer to the sun?

VIDEO: Where does a new day start?

As we approach World Education Days next week, we're asking ourselves, if World Math Day doesn't start until the 6th, then how come I can start competing here on the 5th? It all has to do with the spinning of the Earth! Check out this animation which helps to explain.



Click on the pic bellow to go to a super-cool interactive time-zone map.

Questions:
Is the International Date Line straight?
Where does a new day begin in the world? In which city, country, continent?
Where does a day end?

Fun Animaniacs Song about Time Zones:

SONG!: Moon Phases Song by Mr. Parr

Lyrics:
I see it hanging all around
In the sky above and I'm like
The Moon
Oo, Oo, Oo
I guess the change in the phases
Brighten it up, I'm like
The Moon
It's a New Moon too
Is that Solar Eclipse, yeah, the Moon blocks the Sun a bit
Ha, ain't the Sun a slit ( Sun's not so lit)
And although there's Waxing and Waning
I still like it best with a
New Moon
Oo, Oo, Oo

Yeah we're charting with New it's starting
But the next phase is Waxing Crescent
We're moving counterclockwise the First Quarter
But that's only a quarter way there
It's Waxing Gibbous, that looks like a Full Moon
(Oh wait there's a part missing, left side is dark, thinning)
Ooooh
I got a Full Moon for you
Yeah, go run and tell your little friends

I see it hanging all around
In the sky above and I'm like
The Moon
Oo, Oo, Oo
I guess the change in the phases
Brightens it up, I'm like
The Moon
It's a Full Moon too
Is that a Lunar Eclipse, yeah, Earth's shadow casts on it
Now the Moon aint' lit (Moon's dark a bit)
And although there's Waxing and Waning
I still like it best with a
Full Moon

Now the Full Moon changes tomorrow
Begins Waning Gibbous so neat
Trying to keep lit in its orbit
Cause Third Quarter left half gets heat
The Waning Crescent looks like a "c" ascuew
(Oh wait there's a part missing, just thought the right side was hiding)
Ooooh
I've got a New Moon for you
Yeah, go run and tell your little friends

I see it hanging all around
In the sky above and I'm like
The Moon
Oo, Oo, Oo
I guess the change in the phases
Brighten it up, I'm like
The Moon
It's a New Moon too
Is that Solar Eclipse, yeah, the Moon blocks the Sun a bit
Ha, ain't the Sun a slit (Sun's not so lit)
And although there's Waxing and Waning
I still like it best with a
New Moon

Now maybe, maybe, maybe, the Sun the Moon and the Earth are lined up
(Spring Tide, Spring Tide, Spring Tide)
But when the Moon and Sun are placed at a right angle it's not so bad
(Neap Tide, Neap Tide, Neap Tide,)
Why, Why, Why maybe
Oh Gravity, It's Gravity
Ooooooooooh

I see it hanging all around
In the sky above and I'm like
The Moon
Oo, Oo, Oo
I guess the change in the phases
Brightens it up, I'm like
The Moon
It's a Full Moon too
Is that a Lunar Eclipse, yeah, Earth's shadow casts on it
Now the Moon ain't lit (Moon's dark a bit)
And although there's Waxing and Waning
I still like it best with a
Full Moon