Patterns in the sky

We went on to inquire into our next line of inquiry. We began by a simple provocation. We put 3 different sized balls -  One was the earth, one was the sun, and one was the moon.

We were posed with 3 different questions

# Here we have 3 different sized balls.  One is the earth, one is the sun, and one is the moon.  Turn-and-talk with a friend.  Which ball should be which?  Why do you think that?

# If this ball is the moon and this ball is the earth, does either of them move?  How do they move together?  Turn-and-talk with a friend

#If this ball is the earth and this ball is the sun, does either of them move?  How do they move together?  Turn-and-talk with a friend.

We moved on to do a science based KWL chart which is called the KLEWS chart.

We started by tapping into what we already knew about patterns and what were the different objects we see in the sky.

We also wrote our wondering about patterns and solar system.

We took our wondering outside to observe the sun 3 times.

Each time we went outside,

• we measured the sun’s distance from the horizon
• we saw how the position of the sun affects our shadow length

To further understand why the sun sets and rises we worked on different centers.

Center 1 - Torch, globe will be placed and instructions. The students will read those instructions and follow what they say. They will explore the same and see what they understand from the experiment.

Center 2 -  The students will enact the words of a song to understand the concept better.

Center  3  -  The book - What makes day and night will be kept. The students read the book to understand the concept of day and night.

Post understanding the patterns of the sun we moved on to understanding the pattern of the moon. We started by observing the moon over a period of days. Post that we worked in centers again to discover the pattern of the moon.

We then looked into physically experiencing the movement of the Moon and Earth.

We also learnt about a few constellations found 

Our completed KLEWS chart




Off we went to the Nehru Planetarium to learn more about the planets.

Weighing ourselves on different planets was very interesting. The planet show in the dome was so enticing and made us aware of the changes the solar system has gone through to reach the way it is now.

We were now ready to set out on our summative assessment. 

Task 1

We had to make a travel brochure to advertise a trip  throughout the solar system. We used the google slides to make our brochures.

We put out our brochures in the corridor to have a unanimous voting to find out who had made the most inviting brochure.

Task 2

We reflected using a Venn diagram to compare the Earth and any one other planet

Task 3
We were asked to create a working model to explain the cycles associated with the Earth's place in space.

We had to explain our models to lower grades to see if they understood he patterns we were trying to show.

Reflection time
We went back to our matching charts we had done at the beginning of the unit to see if we had matched correctly.

End of Unit celebration 
We invited our parents to share about our learning of the unit.

  

Math

Learning about directions 

Creating  3D shapes form 2 D nets

  
Understanding co - ordinates on a grid


Exploring the three types of triangles