Thursday, Sept 11, 2008 - Block 4B

Asked students what their parents thought about the "What do you think?" worksheet.

Introduce Astrogeniosity Unit

Students did Astrogeniosity pretest. Handed them in.

Went over Content Objectives
Students will be able to:
Describe by acting out, the motions of the Moon and Earth
Demonstrate the Right Hand Rule

Went over Language Objectives
Language Objectives are important because the more you talk about the subject, the better you understand it. The jokes you remember are not the jokes you hear but the jokes you tell. Moon joke.

Language Objectives:
Draw Pictures Showing Key Vocabulary Words

Tell family and friends the ideas learned in class using correct vocabulary.

Went over vocabulary: year, month, day, orbit, rotate

Introduced clockwise and counterclockwise. Did demo of drawing 6's while rotating foot.

Described how Earth rotates and how Earth goes around Sun.
Went over right hand rule and gave poem.

Students paired up and acted out poem.

Used the right hand rule to explain that you are more likely to see shooting stars in early morning before sunrise than in evening after sunset.

Used the ideas to show that you move faster in night than in day and how this same principle can be used to explain why a boomerang turns and comes back.