Belmore South Public School

The collection of space capsules, rockets, space stations, Hubble telescope is huge.

Hope you enjoyed a glimpse of the Space capsule that first circled the moon and came back to Earth. Look at the burn marks on it. It had to land in the ocean so it didn’t smash to bits or burn up.

The Space Capsule was sent into space on top of a big rocket like in the picture.

When did man first step on the moon? Can anyone tell me? Isn’t the picture inspirational?

The way man gets into space now is on the Space Shuttle which can go back and forth like a plane,
here is a picture of one of the Shuttles. How many were there? What were their names?

The Space Shuttles take astronauts to the Space Station now.

Mrs P and I were standing in the endless Starbuck’s line wearing our Pearson’s shirt. These 2 people came out of the crowd yelling at us and waving their arms. 

“You’ve won, you’ve won” they said and presented us with an ipod shuffle each!!!

At this birds of a feather session at NECC 2009 we were looking at what it was possible to do with iphones / ipod touch apps.

Be entertained by the guitarist and his 3 iphone ‘appers!!!

This is a huge conference where over 13 000 people come to learn about the latest trends in technology.

People meet other people and talk a lot but mostly teachers spend time going to lessons and learning.

We’ve learned about;

• how powerful Google is as a web based engine for searching the Internet and that it helps focus and then organise your searching
• iphones and ipod touches and what great learning tools they can be in the classroom
• all sorts of amazing Apps from web 2.0
• literacy and how it’s so much more than reading and writing and how it is nearly impossible to test using old test formats
• making the classroom a happy and fun place to be
• what students think about the way they are being taught and how they would like to be taught using technology
• the importance of the web as a place for publication
• the new web, web 3.0

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As we were walking through the Air and Space Museum I heard a kid say “they shouldn’t being doing that now.They should be doing it at night when we can’t see them doing it!” he was really indignant.

We thought it was great because we got to see that this amazing model was so simple to put together. With rolls of gold and silver foil, wire, sticks, black paint and glue we could make one too!

Is anyone at BSPS up for the challenge? After all aren’t we are all studying stars and space and things like that next term or the term after.

As people cannot fly they have had to learn how to . . .

One of the museums at the Smithsonian Institute is devoted to Space and Flight.

Look what we learned about flight. Look at all the people having a fun time playing around with all sorts of experiments about elements of flight. It as a really exciting place to be!

Does anyone know people who have been there?

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The Museum is actually made up of 19 museums and each of these is focussed on aspects of man’s world. As we walked along the Mall we found eight.

They were:

• National Museum of the American Indian
• Air and Space Museum
• Museum Of Natural History
• Museum of American History
• Museum of African Art
• African-American History and Culture
• National Gallery of Art
• Museum of Modern Art

Each of these museums is about twice the size of our Australian Museum in Sydney.

Mrs Pericles and Mrs Dyer are in Washington DC. They are attending NECC 2009 the biggest Technology Conference in the world. Not only are they looking at all sorts of new technology they are also learning heaps in the classes they are attending. What they are learning will help make the learning for all our students more interesting.

While in Washington DC, they have looked at some of the monumental buildings.

It is very hot and sticky and they have walked many kilometres. Here are some of what they’ve seen.

Surveyors, engineers, architects, electricians, men in yellow coats some wearing hard hats were gathering in our playground the other day. All this activity is a sign that the building of our new Hall, Canteen and COLA is about to get underway.

Plans have been drawn up. Maybe it will be ready for Presentation Day . . . wouldn’t that be wonderful.