On August 21st at 2:30PM we'll experience a solar eclipse at 98% of totality. CCSD, along with every other county in metro Atlanta, is altering their school day, and we'll be able to watch the eclipse on our active boards in the classrooms here at Tritt. To get an ideal of what the eclipse will look like from anywhere in the US, check out timeanddate.com.

I shared the following video, from one of my favorite channels, SciShow Kids, with grades 1st-3rd. It takes a closer look at the Solar Eclipse that crossed Europe in 2015, and provides an animated version of what we can expect here.

There's an Eclipse coming on August 21st, and Jessi and Squeaks are PUMPED! Today, they'll show you where in the world you'll be able to see the eclipse, what happens during an eclipse, and tell you how you can watch the eclipse safely!

The next video, from Vox, was shared with 4th and 5th grade:

How solar and lunar eclipses work. Note: This is an update of a video we published in 2015. Sources: Getty Images https://www.amazon.com/Totality-Great-American-Eclipses-2017/dp/0198795696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500557252&sr=8-1&keywords=totality NASA: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?series=383 Eclipse catalog: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/catalog.html Dmitry Chulkov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrXJfVFbnfU Bernt Rostad: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/2773255031 mtsrs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtsrs/3768574487 CNES/CNRS/NASA: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11133 Marc Aragnou: https://vimeo.com/108544802 Jesse Olson: https://vimeo.com/57820123 redwing115: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yljQ3XsFU_8 Xavier Jubier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E53RbhQjajA vfr800hu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnMc6biFCw mikewattsuk/bbc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt3C5MM7Jkg Subscribe to our channel!