South Middle School, Braintree - September 30th

38°41'50"N
03°53'44"W
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The EarthView team is happy to be visiting South Middle School in Braintree for our annual visit! 

While thinking about something to write about this week, EarthView wrangler Eva stumbled across a Sun Chronicle article that sure caught her attention! The article is titled "Stockpile the bread and milk. Winter's coming and it looks to be cruel". While our Fall season is barely underway as the Autumnal Equinox just occurred last week, it is never too early to prepare for Winter...or is it? 

According to the article, Accuweather has released a long range forecast which warns that the Northeast, especially the area between Hartford, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts will see frequent storms, below normal temperatures, and that the snow could last into early to mid Spring. 

Boston after a blizzard in 2006

    

Can you guess what's happening on March 4th, 2017?

How accurate is this forecast? I guess we will have to wait and find out. However, the farther into the future you go, the less certain a weather forecast is. As long as it does not snow on or around March 4th, Eva will be a happy camper!










We hope that the students of South Middle School enjoy their visit inside of Earthview and we hope to be back next year!

Oak Hill Middle School, Newton - September 22nd

42°18'36"N 

71°11'29"W

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The EarthView team is excited to be visiting Oak Hill Middle School in Newton for the very first time! We will be visiting with the sixth grade students here.

We were informed that these students have just read the book, "If the World Were a Village" by David Smith. Ironically enough, EarthView wrangler Eva saw this book for sale at the consignment shop that she works in over the Summer and bought it! It is a book geared towards the youth and explains different issues that we face on our planet due to the world population.

One of the biggest issues we face is the limited supply of fresh water that is available to us. During the first few minutes of the EarthView program, while inside of the globe and it is filling up with air, we address this issue first hand using a box of blue and white painted beads. Inside of the box there are 100 beads that represent all of the water found on the Earth. 97 of the beads are painted blue and represent the amount of salt water on Earth, 2 of the beads are painted white representing the amount of fresh water that is stored away in glaciers, while there is 1 bead that is painted gold. This bead represents all of the fresh drinking water available to all on the Earth. This representation really helps to show why it is so important to conserve our water. It is a precious and limited resource that we all need to survive! Remember that the next time you are brushing your teeth or taking a shower. Be sure to turn off the faucet when you are not using it and try to minimize the amount of time that you spend in the shower.

If we were all aware of the impact that we have on Earth, I think we could definitely do our part to make this world a better place.

We hope that the students of Oak Hill Middle enjoy their visit with EarthView and we hope to visit again!

East Middle School, Braintree - September 16th

42°13'15"N 

70°59'23"W

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Hello Earthlings!

We apologize for not blogging about this visit to East Middle School in Braintree last week, September 16th. This Fall semester has really gotten to us but we certainly will he bloggint every week like usual!

We had a great time visiting East Middle School in Braintree as we do every year! We hope that the students enjoyed their visit inside or EarthView and we look forward to our visit next year!

Mill Pond School, Westborough -- September 9

42° 16' 06" N
71° 36' 54" W 
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The EarthView team is making its first visit to Mill Pond School, where sixth graders are studying several topics we can explore with EarthView, such as climate change and the continental-drift theories of Alfred Wegener (1880-1930). 



The  town of Westborough is preparing to celebrate its tricentennial, having been founded in 1717. About sixty years ago, the situation of Westborough changed. Situation is an important concept in geography, referring to the location of a place in relationship to other places. The word is used in contrast to site, which refers to characteristics inherent in the place itself. 

How does the situation of a town change? It cannot move, of course, but its connections to other places can. In this case, the Interstate Highway System put Westborough at a major crossroads between I-90 and I-495. The first crosses the entire continent east-to-west, while the other connects all of the outer suburbs of Boston, from Cape Cod to Cape Ann.

EarthView will be taking center stage today, as we have use of the school auditorium, rather than the gymnasium. We know that the globe will perform well in this, our first program of the 2016-2017 school year.