This document contains announcements and assignments from a science teacher. It lists several upcoming projects and assignments due, including a 3-page report, a scaled planet model with information chart, and a 1-hour debate. It also provides the daily assignments, such as comparing sizes of inner and outer planets, drawing and naming a comet with its path and tails, and choosing between a space probe timeline or travel brochure project. Students are reminded that their main project is due on Friday.

1. Warm-up, 11.19.2009Lets say that, hypothetically, SETI announced yesterday that it has received a sign of intelligent life near our closest star, Proxima Centauri. How would you react to such news? How do you think scientists and politicians should react if such a thing were to occur?

2. PROJECT IS DUE TOMMOROW!!!!!!!!Period 2: 3 page (typed) report on a subject of your choosing, clearly divided into sections, posted on the class wiki page. Period 3: Scale planet (3-D), with info chart (poster board) and distance from the Sun (to scale).Period 4: One hour of debate with lots of visual aids, references, and preperation.

3. Due Friday:YOUR PROJECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. FINDS research model sheet