Learn To Love Science; Biology Tutoring & Science Camps

HCHS PTO Tutor Expo
Thursday, September 3 (Curriculum Night)
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Hinsdale Central Cafeteria

Arrive early for Curriculum Night and not only find a better parking spot, take advantage of an opportunity to meet a variety of tutors. Both large vendors and independant tutors will be there to discuss a variety of services including: 1:1, small groups, subject specific (Math, Science, English), ACT/SAT prep, special ed. This event is an opportunity to do the research now and have a name handy should your child even benefit from a tutor.


Sponsored by the HC PTO Parent Network
www.hcpto.org

Home 2014-15 Third Quarter Winners:April Tatro, Becky Wilcox, Myles Laffey, Michael Smith, Kristen Bronke, Gia Georgeow-Maniscalco, Kimberly Williams

Did you know bats are an amazing keystone species!? Just hanging out w the Brookfield Zoo KIDS (Kids Investigating Diverse Sciences) and our new friends from The Flying Fox Conservation Fund!

Today was 61°F warm! An open-your-windows-and-listen-to-the-birds-sing warm! It's no secret, it's been winter! A record-making winter! And it's not over, because it's going to snow tomorrow night! So we took advantage of the day, took some inspiration from the birds, and made a little gift of nesting materials for our neighbors.

Learn To Love Science: Nesting Materials Inspired by Today's Temporary Spring Weather & Bird Songs!

Watch the debate LIVE TONIGHT! (February 4, 2012) at 7-9:30 PM (ET) with a question/answer session beginning at 8:45 PM (ET) on www.billnye.com or on www.debatelive.org or debatelive.org/asl which includes ASL interpreters. Immediately following the debate, Bill and Ken will do an interview for Piers Morgan Live on CNN for a post-debate analysis, then MSNBC TV will interview Bill. If you can't watch it live, the recorded version will be available at debatelive.org until noon (ET), February 5, 2014; after that on the "Answers in Genesis" YouTube channel. Details at Answers in Genesis' press release and their FAQs. You can also buy a dvd and/or download of the debate. Make no mistake...I've already ordered mine!

Learn To Love Science: Why Bill Nye The Science Guy is NOT Wasting His Time Debating the...

Kudos to GoldieBlox and CEO Debbie Sterling for disrupting "the pink aisle and inspir[ing] the future generation of female engineers.” I don't think The Beastie Boys could be prouder of this use of "Girls!"

This Awesome Ad, Set to the Beastie Boys, Is How to Get Girls to Become Engineers This is a stupendously awesome commercial from a toy company called GoldieBlox, which has developed a set of interactive books and games to “disrupt the pink aisle and inspire the future generation of female engineers.” The CEO, Debbie Sterling, studied engineering at Stanford, where she was dismaye...

Wanna give credit where credit is due? Vote for Amy Freeman and Dave Freeman's phenomenonal work with The Wilderness Classroom.

Vote for the People's Choice Adventurer of the Year -- National Geographic Vote every day for the People's Choice Adventurer of the Year nominee who you think best embodies the spirit of adventure. Featuring: Amy Freeman, Dave Freeman, JP Auclair, Diana Nyad, Adam Ondra, Stacy Bare, Nick Watson, Greg Long, Sarah Marquis, Kevin Pearce, Raphael Slawinski, Ian Welsted, Kilian...

Last week the ground shook under my feet...and it WAS an earthquake!

Twitter / NutmegSomething: Thanks @USGS! Turns out it ... Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favourite celebrities, and breaking news.

Flying squirrel frightens deer!

Twitter / NutmegSomething: MT from @HaileyLehrer "A deer ... Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favourite celebrities, and breaking news.

"Why do we do this? Because in the age of iPads and Netflix, we don’t want our kids to lose their sense of wonder and imagination. In a time when the answers to all the world’s questions are a web-search away, we want our kids to experience a little mystery. All it takes some time and energy, creativity, and a few plastic dinosaurs."

Dinovember Home of DINOVEMBER, a yearly global Dinosaur invasion of libraries, classrooms, and homes, and the WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID picture book series by Refe and Susan Tuma, including WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS in bookstores now!

BLAST! Here at LTLS we felt the earth, quake, under our feet! The 3.7 shake that registered in Indian Head Park, IL at 12:35; depth 1.4km was from a quarry blast!

Geological Survey: Tremors in western suburbs likely from quarry blast Blasting at a quarry sent tremors through the western suburbs shortly after noon today, causing buildings to shake and many people to believe they had been by hit a quake.

Wrong. Bc what we SHOULD be promoting are enriching, positive interactions with the natural world. According to PRNess, Toys R Us "coordinated a carefully executed prank...As nearly 100 kids from local New York charities, including Big Brothers Big Sisters and The Boys & Girls Club, boarded a school bus for a field trip captained by Park Ranger Brad from "Meet the Trees Foundation," their lack of enthusiasm was written all over their youthful faces...[after 20 minutes they were told] that they were actually going to Toys"R"Us. The sheer excitement that ensued was nothing short of amazing."

Toys"R"Us 'Make All Their Wishes Come True' Launch TV Spot Watch as Toys"R"Us surprises some lucky kids by letting them pick any toy in the store. Toys"R"Us is making wishes come true this holiday season. ...

And goodnight! "During sleep, cerebral spinal fluid is pumped around the brain, and flushes out waste products like a biological dishwasher."

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/17/sleep-cleans-our-brains-say-scientists