About Me

• Graduated From Baylor & University of Dallas• Married with 1 beautiful daughter• Like to build stuff• My car’s name is Margarita• 11th Year Teacher

Welcome to my class. Here is some info about me.

Family

Carpentry

Astronomy• Grades (50/50)• Daily = Notes, Activities, etc…– Current Astronomy Events• 2 articles/6 weeks

– Journals• Graded once/6 weeks

• Test = Quizzes/Completed Large Projects

Earth Space Science• Grades (50/50)• Daily = Notes, Activities, etc…– Current Astronomy Events• 2 articles/6 weeks

– Journals• Graded once/6 weeks

• Test = Quizzes/Completed Large Projects

Random things to know• I have been doing a fundraiser for years

– Everything is a Dollar.– Pop Tarts– Water– Coffee– Hot Chocolate– IOU’s

• Need to be paid in about a week• Do not need to be more than a couple of dollars

• The goal is to buy things for my class• Tutorials (AP) @ 7:30• Everything we do in class will be posted on spacebair.wikispaces.com.

Please write this on top of your folder which you need to show me by next week.

Rules• 1) Don’t talk when Bair talks, and quickly get quiet when I

start talking.– Beginning of class every day

• After the warm up I will go over it and tell you what is going on that day.• Usually the warm up asks you to get something, or just to know

something. I expect everyone to read it and follow instructions if there are any every day before the bell rings.

– During lecture– Random instructions

• I will interrupt the class to tell you important things… If you hear me talking loud, get quiet quick.

– During Tests• 2) Get your work done

Procedures• 1) Bathroom

– Don’t tell me– Just grab the pass and go (bring the pass back!)

• 2) Tests– We will trade and grade.

• 3) Turning in work/tests– To the baskets on the wall.– Journals may be kept or put in a yellow folder on the lab table

folder sorter. (we will make these)• 5) Technology

– Please bring your phones/ipads/laptops to class if you want but use them appropriately (use them to help you work).

Things you need for class

Class supplies• All students – A folder or something to keep your

work in (you keep this), Box of Kleenex; Pack of bright colored paper; Pack of Red or Brown paper or construction paper (for a Mars project).– Even classes – Roll of paper towels, & pack of glue

sticks.– Odd classes – pack of scotch tape.

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Graphic Organizer• Get a piece of white butcher paper about the size of your desks.• In your group, put a circle in the middle of your page• Put the course title in it (Astronomy)(Earth/Space Science)• Make lines coming out of it and write everything you know about the

topic at the end of the line and circle it. – If that point can be divided into smaller topics, expand the diagram.

• Things that you would like to know the most about, go back and color them in.– After you have written everything your table can think of use your phones

or other internet enabled devices to look up current events or facts that pertain to those topics and write them in.

• Decide with your table on two questions you would like answers to at some point this year.

• Share your work and questions with the class.

Folders

• If time permits…• Make a folder and decorate it.– It must have your full name and class period on it at

the top of the front side.– It must be school appropriate– Decorate it with whatever you like.– If you want to bring pictures to tape to it you can, or

if you want to take it home and decorate it you can.– I will laminate them Friday.