SMART Board Report

Use the interactive diagram at the bottom of the page to determine the direction of the earth’s rotation when viewed from above the North Pole. (Hint: rotate the observer – the stickfigure – to the noontime position, then sunset position, then midnight position, and finally back to sunrise position. The earth has made one complete rotation and the observer has experience one daily (diurnal) cycle of day and night.) When viewed from above the North Pole, does the earth rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise? _counter-clockwise

Observation one is carried out straight after the lunch time break and is during a 30 minute teacher lead whole class science activity investigating light sources. This links to The National Curriculum under Science, Physical Processes - Light and Sound, (DfES, 2004). KU1.4

Students are taken back in to the classroom where they discuss their findings and thoughts on the activity.

Hence children have misconceptions on the weather elements and changes in the environment (Reference book Year 1) Probing questions and discussing with the students about the moon’s phases

Tenek woke up with a truly wonderful question, “Is there life on earth?” he wondered. He looked around the observatory, which he had been sleeping in after staying late for work the night before. One of his colleagues, Fleebie was there checking in for work. She saw Tenek and came to see what he was doing in work so early. He told her how he was working late, but fell asleep in the observatory. that he had been studying the planet Earth for about a month now. Annod, his boss had given him the assignment of figuring out everything he could about Earth

Proof of Student Ideas: I will quote the student, explain their misconceptions and link findings to relevant academic literature.

It takes 16 hours to rotate around the Sun once. It takes about 165 Earth days to make a complete rotation around the Sun. Earth revolves around the Sun counter-clockwise. Earth rotates on the axis of rotation which goes through the North Pole and South Pole. The rotation for one day is called a sidereal day. A sidereal day lasts roughly 24 hours. It takes Earth 365.25 days to make a complete orbit around the Sun.

Why does it take the earth so long to rotate around the sun? It takes the earth 24 hours to rotate around the earth once. Did you know that when the big bang happened there was 1,0000 particles 1/9,9999 lived and that is now are earth. Did you know that the moon has some gravity so the moon stayed close to the earth. The universe

Last year, my small high school was finally graced with an Astronomy class. I eagerly signed up, and discovered the curriculum surpassed my expectations. I had a wonderful time in the class, and discovered many wonderful things. The creation and destruction of stars, the substances that make up our universe, extraordinary facts about planets, moons, and asteroids; these are just a fraction of the topics I learned throughout the class, but only one really stretched my mind. Stretched may even be too simple of a term to describe its effect on my mind.

Saanvi loves challenges and is self-driven to complete advance workbooks. Her keen interest in Mathematics motivated her to learn new skills and concepts by working on advance concepts. She works consistently on the material given to her by her teachers in school and us at home. Saanvi is a quiet but an observant child. Her understanding of the ideas mostly revolve around the patterns be it in her surroundings or her topics in Math, Science or Social Studies. When she was four, she observed that every day the size of moon is changes and the seasons of the year are different. She used to ask many question how it happens. She relates her daily actions to her science lessons in school by making mental connections which in turn pushed us, as parents, to spend more time to plan and execute her small science experiments using soda bottles, car boards, circuits or magnets.

The first misconception I carried with me into this integrated science course was that the moon is not in free-fall; however, that could not have been more inaccurate. In my judgement, the moon could not be in free-fall because if that were so, then we would not have any moonlight because the moon would be spiraling downwards into an eternal emptiness. Dr. Schmude gave us a visual and a verbal

Once students have a good list of possible evidence that supports the theory, ask them to begin planning how they might conduct an experiment to test for each piece of evidence (i.e. – students who believe fossil evidence might be a key should design an experiment to either dig for fossils or research fossil

Assuming this is the case, you can take in an extensive variety of ideas, from the way of gravity to how the sun functions. Utilizing representation and voice-over, the scenes improve complex thoughts, making science relatable and fun.

Our unit for the month of March is “How Things Move.” Throughout this unit, the children will explore how people can move their bodies and then use this knowledge to investigate how objects move. The children will begin this unit by first exploring how their own bodies move which will provide them with an experiential frame of reference for understanding how non-living things move. Once they have experienced activities that involve moving their own bodies, they will explore the motion of inanimate objects. In the coming weeks, we will talk about gravity as a force that makes objects move and explore how pushes and pulls affect how objects move. As the children participate in the different activities from this unit, they will achieve the following learning goals; in science, they will make predictions, test predictions and compare predictions. They will also be able to describe the effects of common forces on objects. In literacy, they will use descriptive language in conversations to talk about what has been seen and done. In math, they will use the language of spatial relationships to describe the position of objects. They

They are given several minutes to explore. Students must find a desirable question to research and conduct the experiment based on their observations.