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We’re Sending a GriffinCam Into Space

I’ve shared you all on a Google Doc we’ll use to keep ourselves organized in the planning for this monumental task, but here’s the page if you just want to follow along… GriffinCam Into Space Can we do it? Yes, we can.

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February 3, 2011
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HUGE News: Arsenic, Phosphorous and Us

Image from the Washington Post article… Life, as we thought of it, requires six elements… nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, hydrogen and phosphorous. Except we now realize phosphorous can be substituted with arsenic. If you check out the periodic table, you’ll see that the elements phosphorous and arsenic are in the same family/group. This is just [...]

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December 2, 2010
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Minnesota Loot

I’ve been here in Duluth, Minnesota for the week for a teacher training conference. I’ve met some really wonderful teachers including an Earth Science teacher named Mr. Paul Davis who teaches here in Duluth. He gave me a collection of Minnesota agates to bring home for our own SDS rock collection! While we don’t do [...]

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