Sputnik - Satellite

sputnik's leftovers

A satellite is a robot that orbits around planets for data and photos. Satellites are use for things like comcast dish network and to predicted the weather. On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the very first satellite to orbit around the earth, but it burned in the atmosphere and the space junk from the soviet sputnik crash back down to earth in Wisconsin. Space junk is just parts of broken satellites.

World Science Festival - All Creatures Great and Smart

I watched a show called "All Creatures Great and Smart", and my favorite part was about the monkeys. The Bonobos are a species of chimpanzees. They share 98.7% of our DNA, and they have pink lips just like people. Bonobo males are nicer to the Bonobo females than chimpanzee males are to chimpanzee females. The females are the ones in charge. Another type of monkey has an alarm call. They have three types of alarm calls one if there is a leopard, another if there is a eagle and they have one just to leave that area. There was another type of monkey that had different calls one for bread and one for an apple. I didn't know that bonobos and humans had so much in common. I wonder if scientist can train them to talk in English.

Illustration Friday - Paisley

"Masai"

Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences - Bug Day June 19, 2010

Chocolate Chirp Cookies

Chex Mix with Crickets

Chocolate Chirp Cookies

Chocolate Covered Crickets

Saturday we went to the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences. As soon as we came in we saw a macaw named Georgia, and she said hi and she said bird day. Then we went to the insect petting zoo. I picked up a Bess beetle and a tarantula. My brother Tony picked up a Madagascar hissing cockroach and a tarantula too. After that we went to go eat some bugs such as: fried Mexican caterpillars, chocolate covered crickets, chocolate chirp cookies, chex mix with crickets and cricket and millworm lollipops. We went to another bug stand and we saw a giant millipede, a baby praying mantis and a locus.Then we went to the mini zoo where we saw monkeys, crocodiles, snakes and lizards. then we went to go see a planetarium show, and I learned that our galaxy can move 210,000 miles per our. later we went to go see the giant mechanical insects. next we went down stairs and dug for fossil molds, then me and my dad played checkers it was really fun. Then we went home and had a cook out.

Ripple - IF

"Helping Them with my Art" byNic

I am 11 years old and I am an artist who LOVES animals! I wish I could go rescue them, but my mom doesn't want me to get sick. I am really happy that I can help to save them with my art as part of the Ripple art project, http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/ . As part of a homeschool project, I have started a t-shirt business and I have created a special oil spill tee to sell to my friends and I am donating all of the profits to help save animals.

"Oil Balls in the Sand" by Nic

"Oily Bird" by Nic

"The Birds are Sad" by Nic

My brothers want to help, too.

"Oily Seals" by Tony

Tony is 7 years old and also wants to do something to save the animals. His favorite animals are the sea turtles and he hopes he can raise money to help them.

"Oil in the Water" by Alec-Noah

Alec-Noah is 4 years old and he is really sad that we won't be able to go to the beach this year and run from all of the crabs like we did last year.

BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill 2010 - June 21 Day 63

On April 20 BP's latest oil wel'ls platform blew up and sank which caused the pipe to crack in several areas. An estimated 210,000 gallons are being released per day. Most of their plans to stop the oil spill aren't working at all. A lot of marine animals are dying every day, and the oil is harming many people as well.

Illustration Friday - Slither

Don't look into her eyes.