First, we talked about the upcoming homework that is due. This is it:
Thursday, March, 24th (tomorrow)
- Send Ms. D and e-mail about any Astronomy-related topic from TED talks (www.ted.com) with the name of the presenter, the title of the video, and 5 things you learned. Also, if you think the presenter was a good presenter or not.
- How many Apollo missions to the moon were there?
- How many men officially walked on the moon?
Friday, March 25th
-Last blog comment, make sure you know whether to do 7th or 8th grade.
After our class discussed the homework, Ms. D reminded us how our 2nd APOD was due.
Then, we finished our diagram of the seasons (equinox, solstice, etc.) as we added the southern hemisphere. Here is what we wrote on our diagram:
Northern hemisphere: Vernal equinox - March 21st, equal day and night
Winter solstice - December 21st, longest night and shortest day, points away from sun
Autumnal equinox - September 23rd, equal night and day
Summer solstice - June 22nd or 23rd, points towards sun, longest day and shortest night
Southern hemisphere: Autumnal equinox - March 21st, equal day and night
Summer solstice - December 21st, longest day and shortest night
Vernal equinox - September 23rd, equal day and night
Winter solstice - June 22nd or 23rd, longest night, shortest day
Ms. D later showed us a video about the Earth with it's equinoxes and solstices (seasons).
After, we went through a P.P about the moon and took notes. These are some of the notes:
-Waxing = bigger
- Waning = smaller
- About 4.6 billion year old
- 384,000 km from the Moon to Earth
- The Moon orbits the Earth at 3,700 kmph
- The gravity of the Moon = 1/6 of Earth
- There is no atmosphere and that's why foot prints don't disappear
- Galileo was the first with a telescope
- There is a Gravity Lock with Earth which means that it is always in orbit with Earth and the distance always stays (about) the same
- You can only see 1 side of the Moon
- Gravity does NOT equal magnetism
- There is 1 lunar cycle = 29.5 days
- Full Moon rises at sunset
- Everyone can see the same thing in the sky
- In craters, ice deposits have been found
- Tides are controlled by the Moon
After that, our class did a fun exercise with Oreos. We had to create the 8 phases of the Moon with 2 Oreos and the white frosting from them. For example, new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, and waning crescent. The best part was we got to eat them after!
Next, we started the Moon Lab. We labeled it in our notebooks and got started. Our class didn't get to finish, but will continue it on Thursday.
The next scribe is Antonia! :)
Hi Sophie!
ReplyDeleteThis is a HUGE improvement from your first post! You included pictures, different colors, and a lot of detail! The few things you could have improved are having captions/explanations for your pictures, a "fun link", and explain more about the phases of the moon and what they look like. You also need to have "scribe post" as one of your labels. You could also have had more emotion in your vce, although that is a minor thing. Other than that, I'm very impressed with your improvement! :)
Hi there Sophie,
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty good post! You had good pictures, and your detail in describing what was going on in class was very thorough. As Viktor said, you forgot to put the label "Scribe Post" in your labels. You could have added some captions to your pictures, since they were a bit hard to follow. You have two links, of which one to Moodle, which is always great. To see the second one, though, it took me some time, since it was of the same color as the rest of the writing. You could have added a video that showed or explained more about the hemispheres, since your information was a bit confusing to me, since I didn't attend your class. You also could have put the videos that Ms.D showed you. Your notes are good, and I like that you put how much one lunar circle is in days. Also, I didn't know much about the Winter solstice, and now I learned that it is the shortest day in the year, even though when you said "points away from the sun" it was a bit confusing. You also could have explained what APODs are, since I don't have the faintest idea... Overall, though, this post is awesome, and you should keep up the great work!
Davide
Hey Sophie,
ReplyDeleteGood posts but there are some typos. Other than that it seems you did everything right you included the science and you talked about what we did in class that day. You could have talked more about some of the things earlier in class like the apollo stuff. Your pictures were great by the way. This was a great post with almost nothing wrong with it. Good job Sophie.
Calvin
Hey Sophie,
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I love the pictures you put and that you put a link, and that you hyperliked it, but I think that next time you could put a link to moodle as well. I liked the colors you used and that you didn't use just black. I think it was a good idea to put the notes you took in class, but sometimes the notes were hard to understand. You had good science vocabulary, but I didn't like the way you started the post. The only other thing I didn't like is that there was a huge gap at the begining of the post but there were still pitctures. Otherwise, great post.
Sophie - this is a HUGE improvement from your first Scribe Post! Thanks for going through the requirements and rubric before publishing :) You have covered everything we did in class clearly, but I do think you could have gone further with the moon phases, as that was a focus of the class. I also think labeling your diagrams would have helped with that. Nice link to Moodle and TED. There are many more on the web though for seasons and moon phases that would have been helpful. Plus, I think you could have included some of the pictures I took about the Oreo Moon Phases to help explain what we were doing and what they looked like. Your spelling, grammar, font and colors are very well done. Watch labels in the future and don't forget to explore new information that is related to what we are doing. Overall, well done - solid post! ~Ms. D.
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