As many of you have heard by now, I a major earthquake has struck the island of Haiti. By reports, the earthquake (a 7+ on the Richter scale) caused major destruction. If you are interested in learning more, Follow this link to Reuters articles on the subject.

You may also wish to visit the Red Cross Web Page to learn more. Our thoughts go out to our neighbors in Haiti.

It is ironic that we are studying tectonic plate movement and earthquakes this week. I hope you will make this a “learning moment”.

This will be my first content-related post on the blog! WOO HOO!

As you review the layout of our blog, you will notice that there is a “Twitter Feed” included. As many of the students recall, we followed NASA on twitter (@nasa) during the launch of the Hubble as well as subsequent launches.

Twitter allows us to interactively discuss what is happening in the world of science. While the feed is not completely up-and-running, you can follow YOUR class via twitter by following our class. Our class’ Twitter name is @MrWoodsClassFL