2014 7th Grade Joshua Tree Trip • Getting ready for an astronomy outing
Our 7th Grade Class arrived safely in Joshua Tree this afternoon. Thank you Mr. Major, Mr. Watts, and Parent Volunteers! Slideshow below…
OTA’s Science/Outdoor Ed Program takes students on overnight trips to
Ms. Miller and OTA Parent-Volunteers with the Fourth Grade today at Scripps Tidepool / Birch Aquarium.
Goal is to reach maximum apogee and stay aloft for as long as possible. Design challenges are to design a good rocket and a good parachute system.
Concepts Covered: Newton’s Laws of Motion, Momentum = Mass x Velocity, Pressure, Drag, Surface Area to Length of Parachute Shroud Lines, Symmetry, etc.
7th Graders designing parachutes for the descent phase (what goes up…)
The Launch Phase! Many rockets ended up on the roof.
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All are well and having a great time. More photos to follow!
Four days of camping, climbing, rafting, hiking, and nature study to go!
The OTA Team earned 6th place overall and will compete in the Southern Cal Regionals: Sunday, Dec 8 at Legoland.
Mr. Major’s 2013 Fall Team: at the end of Round 1 they are in second place!
All are well and on their way home…
Update from Mr Major:
After hike up Gun Sight Canyon…we did a very very cool cave crawl through the heart of a massive rock formation. It had a cool water collection basin in the very lowest chamber or “water room”
More photos from the 7th Grade Science-Outdoor Ed Trip…. and a report from Mr. Major:
Saw a fox last night and had a star presentation from a local astronomer. Saw the Andromeda galaxy a galaxy cluster in Orion’s belt and the coolest thing with the naked eye was a massively brilliant meteor that lit up the night sky…was bright white then burned red and then fractured into a few pieces!
