Week 7

                                                                  Elementary Science II

Week: September 30th - October 1st 


1. What did you do in lab this week? 

We started class of by taking 2 formative assessments and then in groups picked out what topic we want to present about. My group will be presenting Monday over the Origin of the Earth. Then we had a class discussion about the homework video we had where college and high school students were asked about the moon phases. 

Our big lab activity was to build a physical scale model of the sun and the 4 inner planets, including our moon. This might we have to scale everything and measure distance. If you can from the third pictures below we underestimated wrong. So we had to start all over, as you can see from the first two pictures. We went everything fitting on the table to our scale going all the way to the computer lab. 



2. What was the big question? 

The big question how to we make a proper scale of the plants, distance between plants and sized plants, with the resources we have and time. For example we couldn't make all the plants the same size and the sun really big. We had to figure out based on the suns size how big we should make our plants. Each plant also was a different size. 

This is a great lab you could do with older elementary so that they can physically see how the scale looks likes.  

3.  What did you learn in Thursday's lecture? 

In lecture we counited to talk about position of the point and asked ourselves where would the moon be. Then we went over the formative assessment answers. One big question we talked about was " The moon does not rotate? True or False" Most of the class said false, I remember saying true. The true is that moon does not rotate, it keeps the same face to us. The moon rotates at the same rate as it's orbital motion. 

4. Textbook

  • What did you learn? In chapter 12, Our Solar System, that were are 10,000 galaxies that is in just one tiny speck of the universe. I also didn't know that the milky ways holds 100-400 billion stars. 
  • What was most helpful? It helped to see the diagrams and watch the videos. 
  • What do you need more information on? I need more information about capture and fission.

5. What questions, concerns, and/or comments do you have? 
I have no questions. 

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