By: Sue Speirs12-04-03

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Click here to view the Lunar Eclipse motion PowerPoint sample

Get a Notion,It’s All About Motion

Throw a Ball Animated Sketch

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Baseball pictures taken by Sue Speirs

America’s Favorite…!America’s Favorite…!

What were you thinking,…

Baseball?Baseball?

Physics and Motion

Pay Close Attention Mo, you are about to get a lesson in...

So easy we will solve it with our bare knuckles...

physics is phun

Consider the forces in action…The bat speed of Mo Vaughn

vs. The sweet knuckle ball of Steve Sparks

NOW YOU MAKE THE CALL!NOW YOU MAKE THE CALL!

“GIBBY,Did you see the

Physicsbehind that play?”

“I’m still work’nthe formulas…

JOSH”

PHYSICS is a BLAST

ScienceRocks!

That’sthe

GNEISSthing about SCIENCE

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Pictures used with permission from John Walker

HWY 15 N & Miramar Way

The fire moves south down Oak Canyon toward the 52 freeway.

Aerial view of the fire line along Route 15 near Miramar Air Station.

A San Diego police officer backs his car off Clairemont Mesa Blvd just east of I-15 as the fire flares up on the north side.

Fire rages on the east side of the I-15 at Clairemont Mesa Blvd

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Traffic backed up on I-15 from closures forced by the wildfires on Sunday

The fire line nears a Scripps Ranch development.

A large home burns out of control in Ramona

The fire line nears a Scripps Ranch development.

Ventura County firefighters look at a twister of flame from a wildfire, Sunday, in Simi Valley

A home burns along North Lake Wohlford Road at Valley Center Road on Sunday morning

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November 8, 2003Livonia, MI

Home Driveway7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Prepared by: Sue Speirs, K-12 Science SpecialistGrosse Pointe Public Schools

A total eclipse of the Moon occurred the weekend of

Nov. 8-9, 2003.

A Lunar Eclipse (eclipse of the Moon) happens at Full Moon.

The Moon orbits Earth about once every 29 ½ days.

Lunar eclipses happen when the Moon

passes through the shadow of the Earth.

About two to four times each year, the Moon passes through some portion

of the Earth's shadows (penumbral or umbral) and one of three types of eclipses occurs.

During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks all

direct sunlight from the Moon.

The Moon has no light of its own, but shines by sunlight reflected

from its surface.

Just about 35% of lunar eclipses are total eclipses—

and are totally awesome to watch!

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A bright rim along the moon’s

southern edge will appear in a

totally eclipsed Moon.

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Trading Spaces Question

FYI: Lunar eclipses are safe to watch—unlike solar eclipses.

Imagine that you are an astronaut on the moon November 8th and 9th 2003. If you are “looking at planet earth,” what would you see?

Should you be “looking back” at planet earth? Support your reasoning.

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