Fun Filled Day!

Good Afternoon All!

Today was a pretty fun lab day. We had a lab called "Voyage! of Discovery" which had two parts. Part 1 was taking every day items (mostly spices, or certain foods) and exploring the planet sizes (one tenth-billonth of the size). Students found what all the planets size would be in relation to the Sun as a balloon. With this we really learned why models are so important in studying the solar system. Next we went outside (on this beautiful day, I must add) and paced out the distance of the planets using 1 meter = 845 million (real meters -- or actual). It was fun seeing how far these planets truly are from the sun.

Homework today: 
1. Reflection Questions Worksheet (most finished and turned it at end of hour).
2. Read Pages 82-87 "Intro to Solar System." Write down vocabulary and definitions in notebook (part of notebook check) and do the Assess your understanding questions throughout the chapter #1,a,b and #2,a,b. (This will also be in notebook as part of notebook check).

See you all Wednesday!

Mrs. Lechner

p.s. starting today I will be putting a notebook checklist at the end of each day on the blog. (i.e. what should be in our notebook per day for the notebook check.) Here is what will be checked for today's date. REMEMBER-- notebooks are always due when we have a big Quiz/Test, and are equal to a test grade. You will get a good notice ahead of time as a reminder.


Notebook Check -- November 9, 2015
1. Do Now! What are the seven objects that make up the solar system?
2. Solar System Web - glued in
3. Voyage! of Discovery two questions: Why do we need models to help study the solar system? and How big is the solar system if you could shrink it to one ten-billonth of its actual size?
4. Vocabulary - with definitions.
5. Assess your understanding - pg. 82-87 #1,a,b #2,a,b