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 * //__Reading Log__//**

6/14/10 - Why is Snot Green? - 15 minutes 6/15/10 - The Titan's Curse - 30 minutes 6/17/10 - The Titan's Curse - 30 minutes 6/17/10 - The Titan's Curse - 60 minutes 6/18/10 - The Titan's Curse - 30 minutes 6/22/10 - The Titan's Curse - 30 minutes 6/24/10 - The Titan's Curse - 15 minutes 6/29/10 - Colonial Williamsburg magazine article - 30 minutes 7/2/10 - The Titan's Curse - 15 minutes 7/6/10 - The Universe - 15 minutes 7/7/10 - Colonial Williamsburg magazine article - 30 minutes 7/8/10 - Don't Know Much About Space - 30 minutes 7/10/10 - Ripley's Believe it or Not

__**//Wonder Questions//**__

When you cut yourself, your body responds by healing the wound. First, you start to bleed. This helps to clean out all the dirt and bacteria. The blood will clot and get crusty and then form a scab. Under the scab, your skin cells multiply to make new skin. If you pick at the scab, the cut won't have a chance to heal and will form a scar.
 * 1. How do cuts heal?**


 * 2. What causes freckles?**
 * Dark pigment (aka melanin) under your skin increases and causes freckles. Everyone has different amounts of melanin. Melanin is most common in red heads (people with red hair) because they have a lighter skin tone and they are more sensitive to sunlight. Melanin comes to the surface of the skin causing a brown spot or freckle. **

Supernovas explode creating all the different elements found in the universe. Those elements form the bilding blocks of the other objects in space. Some of those objects are the earth and other planets, the moon and even you and me. That means that practically everything on earth started out as stardust from a supernova explosion.
 * 3. What do supernovas have to do with life on earth?**


 * 4. What are tiles made of?**
 * The most common tiles are made of ceramic, stone, metal, and sometimes glass. All these materials are manufactured materials. (That means that you have to make them.) There are many other types of tiles. Tiles are used to make walls, floors, counters, roofs and showers. **


 * 5. What is the sun made of?**
 * The sun is made of hot plasma. The surface temperature of the sun is 9,932 degrees firenheit (5,500 degrees celsius). The sun is made of three layers. The outside layer is called the chromosphere. The middle layer is called the photosphere. The inner layer is called the core. The temperature is the hottest in the core. The sun is mostly made of helium and hydrogen. **

A family tree is a chart that shows who your family is. Everyone has a family tree. You have to do a lot of research to find out who is in your family. A family tree can go back hundreds of years. It takes a lot of work to find out who you are related to. I am related to someone that signed the Declaration of Independence.
 * 6. How do I know who is in my family tree and does everyone have one?**

Black holes are not black. They are not holes either. A black hole is a collapsed super massive star that has so much gravity that its matter is smashed together into an endless point smaller than a period at the end of a sentence. A black hole's gravity draws in everything that comes close to it. Nothing can escape a black hole so that makes them invisible.
 * 7. Are black holes really black?**

**8. Why are some people color blind?** ** Most of the time, color blindness is inherited. It usually happens to men more than women. Color blindness can also be caused by injury or eye disease. Most people are not aware that they are color blind until someone else points it out to them. There is no treatment for color blindness. **

**9. What is a horse fly?** ** A horse fly is a type of fly that usually bothers animals. It can also annoy humans. The horsefly is a really big fly with dark black wings and a brown body. Female horseflys suck blood when they bite. Male horseflys don't bite, because they are out collecting pollen. Most horseflys carry disease but they don't pass it to humans. **

The Milky Way gets its name from the white band of light that you see in the sky on a clear, dark night. In ancient times, people thought that the band of light looked like a river of milk. Galileo discovered that it wasn't a river at all. He looked through his telescope and discovered that it was really a huge mass of stars.
 * 10. Why is our galaxy called the Milky Way?**