Hello everyone,
During the past two weeks, students have been learning about Planets, Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion, Dwarf Planets, Moons, Comets, Asteroids, Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites, as well as the Life Cycle of a Star and H-R Diagrams. This Friday is our Astronomy: Part 2 - Quiz. The quiz will mark the end of the Astronomy unit. Moving into next week, students will begin their PSSA testing in ELA, the following week will be focused on Math and Science PSSA testing. Between testing, students will begin working on a Stop Motion project creating 30-second to 1-minute-long stop motion videos about different Astronomy topics we focused on during this unit. They will have the ability to bring in materials from home or use in-class resources to make their projects come to life.
The Stop Motion project will be the last Astronomy-focused assignment before moving onto our final unit of the year! Yes, we are so close to summer! The last unit will focus on Natural Disasters/Catastrophic Events. Students during this unit will be working primarily self-paced with some group work mixed in throughout. We'll focus on why volcanoes and earthquakes occur and how natural disasters like those impact human life.
Below are some examples of great poems/parody songs that students wrote for our recent project on small celestial bodies (Dwarf planets, moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites).
Although next week will include special schedules and PSSA testing, if students need to make up any work or turn in any late work they should use the limited class time available to do so! Some students are missing work and have "X"-s in the grade book.
As always if there are any questions, feel free to reach out to me via email at curtis_silverwood@conestogavalley.org
Thank you,
Mr. Silverwood
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