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WEEK OF: October 5th

Monday -  Today students will review how we boiled the water and removed some active bacteria.  Also by boiling we used this water vapor to model the water cycle of evaporation and condensation by using a bag of ice.  Students will complete a ReadWorks lesson on Google Classroom.  Exit ticket on this unit tomorrow regarding our labs, filters, and the water cycle.

Tuesday -   Exit ticket on water.  Begin a new unit, students explore how our sky changes to understand patterns that communities worldwide have observed for centuries. These predictable cycles, used as culturally significant timekeepers, are caused by Earth’s rotation and the orbits of the Moon around the Earth and the Earth around the Sun. 

Wednesday-   Observations of how the Sun, Moon, and stars move across the sky. We modeled to explain how the Moon and Sun sometimes appear together in the day sky, and shared questions and investigation ideas. 

Thursday-   We investigate the Sun since it’s visible during the school day. We brainstorm factors to consider when tracking the Sun’s movement and design methods of observing changes in shadows. We use our Sun Tracking Device to model the Sun’s position by recreating shadow length and direction. We make predictions as to how the results of this investigation would change in the future.

Friday-  Continue with determinig how shadows can tell us time of day and also the season.