"In the News" Bees Beeware! and Astronomy Day
Welcome back! We hope you are having a great start to this new school year.
We wanted to make you aware of some upcoming programs. These programs are FREE for for Texas schools connected to an Education Service Center for videoconferencing services. Because the connections will be made through the statewide Texas Education Telecommunications Network (TETN), all Texas schools will be directed to their ESC to connect to these programs. Most schools will be "view only". If you are not in Texas , these programs are free to you as well, but we may have to limit our out-of-state connections.
To register , visit the Connect2Texas web site .
One other IMPORTANT note we want to make you aware of. We hope to be moving our web site files to a different server some time around the middle of September. We hope that this move will eliminate the problems that some of you have had with our "port 81" url registration pages. Until that move, please read the front page of our Connect2Texas web site to see what you should do if you run into registration problems.
"In the News"
Across the country scientists are looking for clues as to why commercial honey bee hives are turning into ghost towns. Researchers are baffled by the literal disappearance of the adult worker bees with no sign of bodies in or around the hive. Given the ominous name, Colony Collapse Disorder, scientists are studying why bees suddenly leave their hive and don’t come back leaving their queen and brood behind. Learn about the hard life of a commercial bee and the current theories of what is causing “CCD” and come away with a greater understanding and appreciation of the man/bee/plant relationship. | ||
Astronomy Day with McDonald Observatory September 14, 2007 We hope that our Astronomy Day videoconferences will excite your students about science and technology. During the videoconference, Marc Wetzel and your students will explore the Sun and make a scale model of our Solar System. At the end of the program, we will visit with astronomer Dr. Steve Odewahn, who explores our universe with one of the largest telescopes in the world, the 9.2m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory. Dr. Steve Odewahn , |
