Mission to the Moon

Grades K-2: Interactive webinar

Overview

Join a planetarium presenter to explore how cultures around the world observe the Moon, and take an imaginary journey to the Moon’s surface.

Schedule: 3rd Tuesday of each month

Pick the date that works best for your class

  • 10:30am on Tuesday, October 20, 2020

  • 10:30am on Tuesday, November 17, 2020

  • 10:30am on Tuesday, December 15, 2020

What is a webinar?

A webinar is a 30-minute lesson, taught by a team of professional educators, and broadcast to multiple classes at the same time. Kinesthetic movement is included during each lesson. Teachers receive a web link to the broadcast via Youtube and get an optional activity to do before or after the program. These options are great for classes who may meet asynchronously because links of the recordings will be shared.

Extension activities for students

Teachers can find optional extension activities that are designed to be self-directed by the students or class group work, and may be built upon by the teacher if they desire. Activities range from 5-30 minutes long. Students

NGSS connections

This unit supports the following standards:

Related Performance Expectations

  • 1-ESS1-1. Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Connection & technology information

A week before the session, registered parties will receive an email containing the unique YouTube destination for the live program. There are several ways to tune in:

  1. Share the link with students, or parents in advance to bookmark the location. Individuals can watch the livestream in a browser on their own device.

  2. A few minutes before the livestream begins, paste the unique YouTube link in the chat box of your virtual classroom. When students click the link, a browser will open on their device and they can tune in. (If you have your virtual classroom running at the same time, remember to mute everyone!)

  3. If you are able to stream a Youtube video to your whole class on the virtual platform of your choice (for example, Zoom or Google Meet), then screen-sharing the YouTube Livestream to your class may also work. We highly recommend testing this out in advance, perhaps by streaming the animated Tour of the Galaxy video. Is the animation choppy? How is the sound? If you experience any weirdness, it's best to have students watch the stream from their own device's browser.

Pro-tip: You can make the livestream Full Screen by clicking the icon in the lower right of the video.

Rest assured that we'll be posting the recording with 48 hours of the livestream, so if technology issues or asynchronous schedules get in the way, you can still assign the video for viewing afterwards!

If you have questions or need us to resend the email, please contact us at therockprogram@calacademy.org

The Rock Fund Program is open to all K - 5 classes from San Francisco schools, whether public, private or parochial. Interested in a different option for your class this year, instead? Visit the Rock Fund Program website.