December Learning

I have to apologize for not posting in the past month. Report cards, conferences and the holiday season got the best of me! However, this didn't stop the learning in Room 408!

At LEADS we use the Next Generation Science Standards to guide our learning. For the past month we have been researching and studying space systems: the moon, our Earth, the sun, and our Solar System.

 We launched our unit by gathering resources and beginning our Space Book Clubs. We learned that our brains are like sponges, so first we did a Reading Frenzy to get as much space information into our brains as we could. Then we talked about how researchers keep track of their learning. We left tracks of our thinking by writing our new learning on sticky notes. Later, we learned to code our thinking: we put an "R" when we found learning that REMINDS us of something else, we put an "L" for new LEARNING, and a "W" for when we are WONDERING something. Here is a window into our space research for the past few weeks:



What is the most interesting fact you learned about your space research?