Space Activity: Earth And Beyond

This week was the first week of our second rotation for Inquiry, LS1 and LS2 are joining together to learn more about space. We needed to use our prior knowledge about space to help us with our first activity which was a bus stop task that I worked together with Ong and Oscar to complete. After that we watched a video on space and the planets in our solar system, we learnt things like Neptune rains diamonds and Venus is the hottest planet.

Reading Responses

 

This term for reading we have been focusing on reading responses, our task was to create DLOs or complete activities and if we weren't the first person doing the activity, we were to comment and give feedback to someone before us based on what they'd done. The person that we'd commented on would then reply after reading our comment and start a dialogical conversation. A dialogic conversation is a talk between two parties that involved ideas or opinions, sometimes we had different opinions whilst in others we agreed on the topic. One of the tasks that I completed is a Venn Diagram that compares two articles, the other two are Kahoots on articles that I read. Our learning focus was space.

Stardome Trip

On Thursday night most of LS2 went to the Stardome to learn about the stars. A man named Tobias told us about the different constellations and planets, we learnt that there are 88 official constellations like Sagitarius and Scorpius. We also learnt that Saturn's rings are made out of ice and dust particles, Jupiter has 67 moons and Saturn's rings can appear to disappear every 14 years. After that we were allowed to have look around the building, there were Lego models of space ships and rocket related activities.