This is a link to an interactive community site. The site is complete with lesson plans and activities that center around the use of an interactive white board.
Purposes: Help students become acquainted with their new teacher; begin establishing a class expectation of learning through student observation and discovery.
This lesson is meant as an introduction to ideas of how stars and their planets are formed. It utilizes visual, kinesthetic and audio modes of interaction in small group or partner settings.
This lesson is geared to third grade students. It addresses the following standards.
MA: Science and Technology/Engineering, MA: Grades 3 - 5 , Technology/Engineering Materials and Tools 1.2 Identify and explain the appropriate materials and tools (e.g., hammer, screwdriver, pliers, tape measure, screws, nails, and other mechanical fasteners) to construct a given prototype safely.
1.3 Identify and explain the difference between simple and complex machines, e.g., hand can opener that includes multiple gears, wheel, wedge gear, and lever.
Other Standards
3 TE 2. Identify and explain the appropriate materials and tools (e.g., hammer, screwdriver, pliers, tape measure, screws, nails and other mechanical fasteners) to construct a given prototype safely.
3 TE 3. Identify and explain the difference between simple and complex machines, e.g., hand can opener that includes multiple gears, wheel, wedge gear, and lever.
The lesson includes a writtne introduction, exercises for students to do, video links, lesson plans with links and other teacher resources.
Students will learn how cultures from ancient times to the present have used the sun and other objects in the sky to mark the passage of time. They will see how archaeoastronomers use ancient observatories to predict seasons and special events. Digital imaging (or one or more of the other technologies) will be used to help document and present student observations.