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miércoles, 5 de febrero de 2014

STARS, CONSTELLATIONS and GALAXIES (Unit 7- Science Y6)

How wonderful is to watch the stars in a warm summer night? How much do you know about the STARS?

This video will help yo to understand how to see the stars and also is going to show you some of them.

STAR: It is a spherical body which generates light and heat through nuclear reactions. Most stars consist of hydrogen and helium.

Stars have different characteristics:

Colour.
Size.
Luminosity.

CONSTELLATIONS: They are groups of stars. There are eighty-eight constellations. They used to have the names of characters from mythology or the names of animals or objects because of the shape they form.

NEBULAE: A nebulae is a cloud of dust and gas. Some are illuminated by stars near them.

GALAXIES: Galaxies are enormous groups of stars, gases and dust.

There are three types:

Elliptical

Spiral.

Irregular.

Our Solar System is inside a Galaxy called THE MILKY WAY.

Milky Way seen from Mount Rainier just before Sunrise, Washington, USA #EarthPics pic.twitter.com/JVR2EkCLqf
— Google Earth Pics (@GoogleEarthPics) febrero 2, 2014

If you want further information you can look in the following link.

Rader's Cosmos4Kids

LET'S CHECK YOUR LEARNING WITH THE FOLLOWING TEST AND ACTIVITIES.

viernes, 18 de enero de 2013

THE SOLAR SYSTEM´S PERFORMANCE (Unit 7-Science Y6)

This unit you have been learning about THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE EARTH, THE MOON and ECLIPSES and finally STARS, CONSTELLATIONS and GALAXIES.

As a final task and project of this unit we are going to invite you to create a lesson about what you have learnt. We want you to be as much original as you can.

Here you have some guidelines to help you to work:

You are going to do this final task with your class group.
The explanation will include the four parts of the unit:

The Solar System (planets and the sun)
The Earth (rotation and revolution)
The Moon (lunar phases) and Eclipses
Stars, constellations and galaxies.

You have TO DO YOUR BEST:

A performance.
A model.
Record a video and show it.
Create a song.
....
The main objective is TO BE ORIGINAL.

You will have four lessons to do it.
The final task will be shown to the rest of the class group along the last week of January (From the 28th to the 1st of February).

The presentation of the activity and the performance will have a SCRIPT, which you should show to the teacher before acting:

START: Group´s presentation and activity´s presentation.
NUB: Explain the activity. Each member of the group has got a role in the performance. (Explain with your own words)
ENDING: Activity´s conclusion and farewell.

Also you have to do a STORY BOARD, remember the example: