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Student Activities Moon Over Us April-May 学生活动 我们上方的月亮


Activity 1: Take a Survey (April 7-13)

Take a survey and tell about your school, your community, and the environment in which you live. Learn more about different communities in the USA and around the world.



Activity 2: Participant Discussion (April 7-21)

After registering for the Project, students and teachers who would like there school on the map need to send email to icollaboratory@gmail.com what school name, city, state and country so all students and teachers participating in the project will be able to see information about each others' schools and communities.

Please share information about why you joined this project, your school and your community as part of the web-site you will be building in a later activity. (Take some notes now)

View The Moon Over Us in a larger map



Activity 3: Take Photos, Video and Draw (April 7-21)

  • Take photographs, videos, and record audio (optional) of the the moon each evening.
  • Record the exact time and place the picture was taken or the drawing was made.
  • Save the images in .jpg format to be uploaded later to your web page.
  • Video or audio recordings can be 30 seconds or shorter and can be recorded with a laptop computer when you take a picture or make your drawing.


You will use these media items in Activities 4 and 5.



Activity 4：Identify and Compare Moon Phases & Faces(April 7-21)

Identify each of your photos or drawings with the appropriate phase. Use the Moon Phases Diagram if you need help.
  • Compare each of your photos or drawings to Moon Phases Diagram
  • Save your photo and your comparisons to post all the 5 pictures on the web page you will create in Activity 5.
Review Moon Phases Animation. 
  • Select the image that fits your pictures of the moon.
  • Make a screen shot. 
  • Copy the picture of the location of moon and sun, and the one moon phase.
  • Add them to each picture you take.




Activity 5: History & Legends about the Moon(April 7-21)

What do you know about stories and legends of the Moon? Is the Moon made of Swiss cheese? Is there really a Man in the Moon?

Share your stories with other students.


Activity 6: Create Your Web Page; Share Your Photos & Drawings (April 21-28)

To start your Web page, find your school's name on the drop down menu at the top of this Web page. Once you are on your school's Web page, scroll to the bottom and click 'create page'.

Your Web page should include:
  • All the photos or drawings you selected from each of your observations in a chronological order, and each photo or drawing should include the date, time, location and the name of moon phase.
  • Information about moon phases.

  • Information about your experience of recording moon phases.

  • Your work (writing, drawing, painting, photograph, flash, video, etc.) 

    so that others may comment on it.

NOTE: Please include addresses (or latitude and longitude) for each photo/drawing/audio, if possible, so the Project can include the specific location on the interactive map listed just above the date on this page.

 



Discussions about the images and stories 

With the aid of the obtained images, both in real time and through pictures, it is expected that teachers in classrooms could promote explanations of the difference in aspects that when the Moon is seen in different parts of the world.

To do this, drawings of the celestial sphere can be used, and didactic models made ​​of Styrofoam or other materials employed, as well as software with images and animations of the movements of the Moon when viewed from different latitudes.




Activity 7: Upload a Video (April 21-28)

If you've taken a video, then follow these simple directions to upload your video to your Web page.



Activity 8: Make a Comment (April 21-May 5)

Select one webpage from your school and two pages from another school that do not have comments. Read the information and comment on the page. 

The comment should contain: 

  • complete sentences
  • what caught your eye on the webpage
  • what information was accurate
  • what you liked about the webpage
  • ask a question so the creator will reply


Activity 9: What Did You Learn? (May 5-12)

Please re-read your Web page and the comments. Make a final Web page that is a sub-page about what you have learned in this project.



Activity 10: Take a Final Survey (May 12 or 17)

After completing your reflective comment, please take the final survey.
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