Check out the night time sky this month, everyone! There are some amazing things occuring! Last night, Mars showed up in the night time sky (an orangish-reddish "star") in the Eastern sky. It hasn't been this close to Earth since 2003! Also, all through the month, there are different things occuring. Check out the NASA website (on the bottom of this page) for daily images and for a planetary calendar of what is going on. It's pretty sweet!
Some links below are those that you can check the images out on and read up on what will be in the nighttime sky this month...

http://earthsky.org/tonight

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/whatsup2012March.html

Teachers, I had a sky viewing party with my students on the evening of March 19th. It was one of the most beneficial events I have ever organized. Over 150 people attended and we had a line up of telescopes that evening. I set up different stations for the students, but the most popular station was the telescope station. Ironically enough, the most powerful telescope was a children's telescope I bought for my son. We saw the surface of Venus and it was amazing! That evening I thought, "THIS is why I went into teaching". I encourage anyone to try the same event if they love astronomy or love science. The families and students loved it, too.