 |
| HTRS Technology |
|
|
|
|
|
|
What's In the Night Sky
Lesson Title / Description: Our Night Sky Standard(s) Addressed: 1.8.1 By the end of first grade, students will develop an understanding of science as a human endeavor. Objective(s): 1. The student will recognize contributions to science by men and women from many places. Materials:
References: Lincoln Journal Star Newspaper, Sunday February 2, 2003 Edition. Weekly Reader on Exploration of Mercury. Preparation/Introduction: Students have mentioned the recent Space Shuttle Columbia. Articles from the Lincoln Journal Star are shared. Instructional Method: Some background information on the astronauts is read and the fact that they are all from different areas of the United States (noting Col. Michael Andersen was stationed for a time at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha and attended graduated from Creighton University in Omaha. One astronaut is from the foreign country of Israel. Some of the astronauts are men and some are women. Scientific experiments were being conducted form the shuttle. Contributions and risks of such a journey were listed and discussed. Describe how this lesson incorporated hands-on inquiry science methods: The discussion stimulated much inquiry from students as to the future of exploration as well as the risks and contributions of such exploration. Describe how this lesson enhanced higher level thinking skills for students: Describe any collaboration used to contribute to the lesson: Assessment: Students answered the follow up questions from the Weekly Reader featuring the exploration of Mars with an unmanned space craft. Students also made a blow paint image of the night sky and wrote a sentence describing their sky and what it looked like to them. One especially interesting sentence was that it was a super highway which may indicate some thought and a dream into the future of space exploration.
Back to First Grade Science |
|
||
|
