January 13, 2010

The weather station has not been updating this website the past two days. For some reason it has been loosing its connection with the computer. So far a restart of the computer seems to have fixed it. I will be keeping an eye on it today.

January 11, 2010

Science fair season is upon us. The projects will be due in the classroom the week of February 8th. The school-wide science fair we be the week of February 22nd, the week we return from the mid winter break.

Grades PK-2 should have at least one class project per class. Teachers may choose to a few group projects per class, especially second grade. The projects should include a testable hypothosis. I have found a nice website for science fair topics, http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas.shtml?

I have been saving cardboard boxes to be used for presentation boards. This is a wonderful way to be green. Just let me know if you want one, and you can cover it with bulletin board paper.

Send me an email if you have any questions.
MrCainScience@gmail.com

 

The PS weather station is up and running. The yellow bar above scrolls the current weather at PS 3 every 15 mins. Put your cursor on top of it to slow the scroll speed. You may have to hit refresh for the site to update.

For the full weather report click on this link Current Weather

Here are some photos of the station. Thank you to John, our building manager, for taking the time to build the mount to hold up the weather station and carrying the 80 lb station up to the roof.

Please feel free to drop me an email with any comments, suggestions, or just to say hello.

Mr. Cain
rcain@schools.nyc.gov