The North Mississippi Allstars are your band of the week. North Mississippi Allstars is a blues-rock/jam band from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996. The band is composed of brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, keyboards, electric washboard), and Chris Chew (electric bass guitar). In addition to the guitar, Dickinson also plays a…
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“Ya see that? That’s a wave!” Today we shifted gears a bit as we start to focus on sound waves. Today we discussed how sound waves are caused by vibrations that create disturbances in nearby air particles. Now these disturbances that we talk about are the actual “sounds” that we hear all around us. The…
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Lesson One – Questionable Camera Usage As stated before, earlier this week we held our annual world language festival here at Woodland Jr. High. For this event I leased my camera out to one of my students (Lafayette) so that he could capture all the action that was the world language festival. The following day,…
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In light of all the seismic activity we have had in the world lately, this week we took some time to better understand how earthquakes occur. On Thursday, we spent some time mapping the epicenter of the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake. In order to locate an epicenter we must calculate the distance of a seismic…
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As mentioned before, we spent some time in social studies learning how to create tours. Here is Jared from my 5th period class taking us along on his trip to Adelaide, Australia. Mr. McClung
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Students, today we will be creating tours using Google Earth. In order to complete this task you will need to read the tutorial laid out on on the Google Touring Website…you can find this tutorial by clicking here. Mr. McClung
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On Tuesday night, our school held their annual world language festival. This event is held by our German, French, and Spanish teachers and highlights a wide variety of aspects of these particular cultures. Students prepared displays that featured food, sports, structures, and other aspects of culture from varying countries. Mr. McClung
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On Monday of this week we continued our discussions about seismic waves by creating homemade seismometers. A seismometer is a device that measures motion in the earth; however, the seismometers that we created were designed to measure motion of a table (downscale). Our seismometers consisted of very simple materials that included a shoebox, paper, plastic…
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…are your band of the week. The Kooks are an English indie rock band formed in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2004. Formed by Luke Pritchard (vocals/guitar), Hugh Harris (lead guitar), Paul Garred (drums), and Max Rafferty (bass guitar), the lineup of the band remained constant until 2008 and the departure of Rafferty. Signed to Virgin…
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