Thursday, January 28, 2016

On our second day of the new unit:  Earth in the Universe, we did an activity which will be covered in more detail below.  I started out with a warm-up that had fewer questions but still made them think.  A lot of them struggled with number three so I am definitely going to be doing a demonstration and an experiment next week on it.

After the warm-up, we did the Day and Night activity.  I had a starting point in the room representing midnight, or 12:00 am.  I then took 24 index cards and on each one wrote an hour of the day.  Example:  3:00 am and 3:00 pm were two of the cards.  Each student was given a random card and on my signal, they organized themselves in proper hourly sequence.  It actually only took a few minutes.

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Below is a brief video of the students with their cards in the proper sequence.  The video is sideways, unfortunately.