Format
This program begins with an introductory video and then the program goes live within the Green Screen Studio at the Challenger Center. approximately 60 min.
5 min. Intro to Commanders
5 min. Why do we have seasons?
5 min. What is Rotation?
5 min. Examples and student experiments
5 min. What is Revolution?
5 min. Examples and experiments
5 min. What does an Axis do?
10 min.Globe experiments and thermal detection
10 min. Assessment/space game show
Objectives
1. Rotation/Revolution – what’s the difference?
2. Why we have day/night (rotation)
3. Why we have Seasons (tilt and revolution)
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NS.5-8.1 SCIENCE AS INQUIRY
As a result of activities in grades 3-7, all students should develop.
Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Understandings about scientific inquiry
NS.5-8.2 PHYSICAL SCIENCE
As a result of their activities in grades 3-7, all students should develop an understanding
Properties and changes of properties in matter
Motions and forces
Transfer of energy
NS.5-8.5 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
As a result of activities in grades 3-7, all students should develop--
* Abilities of technological design
* Understandings about science and technology
NM-DATA.3-5.1: Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer
NM-DATA.3-5.2: Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data
NM-DATA.3-5.3: Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
NM-DATA.3-5.4: Understand and apply basic concepts of probability
State Standards
New York State Learning Standards
1.1a Natural cycles and patterns include:
• Earth spinning around once every 24hours (rotation), resulting in day and night
• Earth moving in a path around the Sun (revolution), resulting in one Earth year
• the length of daylight and darkness varying with the seasons
• weather changing from day to day and through the seasons
• the appearance of the Moon changing as it moves in a path around Earth to complete
a single cycle.
1.1b Humans organize time into units based on natural motions of Earth: second,
minute, hour, week, month
1.1c The Sun and other stars appear to move in a recognizable pattern both daily and
seasonally.
S 1.1 Explore PI 2A Ask "why" questions in attempts to seek greater understanding concerning objects and events they have observed and heard about.
S 1.2 Explore PI 2B Question the explanations they hear from others and read about, seeking clarification and comparing them with their own observations and understandings.
S 1.3 Explore PI 2C Develop relationships among observations to construct description of objects and events and to form their own tentative explanations of what they have observed.
S 2.1 Explore PI 2A Develop written plans for exploring phenomena or for evaluating explanations guided by questions or proposed explanations they have helped formulate.
S 2.2 Explore PI 2B Share their research plans with others and revise them based on their suggestions.
S 2.3 Explore PI 2C Carry out their plans for exploring phenomena through direct observation and through the use of simple instruments that permit measurements of quantities (e.g., length, mass, volume, temperature, and time).
S 3.1 Explore PI 2A Organize observations and measurements of objects and events through classification and the preparation of simple charts and tables.
S 3.2 Explore PI 2B Interpret organized observations and measurements, recognizing simple patterns, sequences, and relationships.
S 3.3 Explore PI 2C Share their findings with others and actively seek their interpretations and ideas.
S 3.4 Explore PI 2D Adjust their explanations and understandings of objects and events based on their findings and new ideas