Our Place in Space CEU - 4th Grade
What Do We Know?
What do we really know about the history of space exploration? We tried our hand at categorizing space terms, and we kept our charts for the duration of the unit.
Speaking of History...
How does this crazy timeline work - BC? AD? Let's make some sense of this so we understand just how long ago people were making up myths to explain the cosmos.
First Stop - Mythology
Humans first made sense of the universe through mythology. We analyzed several myths to better understand what really makes a myth and MYTH!
Humanity's Place in Space Powerpoints
As we learned about the various eras in space exploration, we each created a Powerpoint timeline.
Early Astronomy
After focusing on ancient mythology, we moved on to early astronomers. We learned the story of the great Galileo and what he went through to try to prove what he believed in using math and science.
Astronomers Comic Strip
Galileo wasn't the only early astronomer. We each were in charge of looking more closely at an early astronomer to understand the progression of theories. We put our summaries together to create an astronomer comic strip.
Sci-Fi!
On to science fiction! We started out watching the Jetsons and reading excerpts from classic sci-fi stories to get an understanding of the actual definition of science fiction. Then we sketched pictures of current-day technology (which was once sci-fi), and we sketched technological ideas that would be considered futuristic We shared our ideas.
Expectations...
Before starting on our own Sci-Fi narratives, we used the HCPSS narrative rubric to guide our expectations for making up our own rubric to help us write and evaluate our stories.
Writing GOALS:
Once we started writing, we also used our rubrics to write goals to reach as we went through the process.