From: L*y Marske <lmarske@mtc1.mtcnet.net>
Subject: lunar eclipse & red rover
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:04:59 -0700
Hi Charles and Dave, I was on line creating a Mars resource list to hand out to teachers who are interested when I saw your messages. Charles, I replied to you, but when I saw Dave's message my mind started to churn especially since, Dave, you said you too are a 6th grade teacher. Are you too Charles? Anyway I told Charles I might make the lunar eclipse an extra credit assignment for those who are interested, but the idea of gathering and sharing some kind of data would be great. I don't exactly know how to go about it, but we could put our heads together and think of something. I mainly only have access to internet here at home, but I might be able to get some sort of access at school if I sign up way ahead of time. In the future our grade level is supposed to have access. So another topic is Red Rover Red Rover. I am in the process of applying for grants to get funds for Red Rover. I would like to find other teachers, students who are also going to do it so we could go on line to control each others' rovers. The other teacher advocate from Iowa, Joe Dolan, and I do plan to do the project together, but I would really like to participate with others from other states too. Where are you two from? I could look it up, but I'm too lazy. I have given my students an ongoing assignment, taken from one of the guides we got at the conference, to be tracking Mars. I went out one Sat. night from 3:00 am till 6:00 am to find it and I think I did. It was awesome. Some of my students have also been successful and I hope more will be. Anyway I'm open to any kind of sharing of experiences and/or sharing of information in any kind of format including simple pen pals. I also teach reading and language arts so we could capitalize on that area too. Lucy Marske Sioux Center Middle School Sioux Center, IA 51250