Our Space Schema

We have been gearing up all year to get ready for our big curricular Space Inquiry!  LEADS uses the Next Generation Science Standards (click here to visit the standards).

Our topic for this inquiry focuses on Patterns of Earth & Space Systems.

Many of our first graders and their families have already been observing the moon during the month of November.

Here are some pictures that Kenley's family sent--you can see how the moon is changing over time!

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As always, I like to hear about my first graders' schema (what they think they know) before starting any inquiry.  The easel has the chart with our first brainstorming session.  This primes the pump for students to think more deeply about what they know.

Next, we all had some quiet time to draw and label our own personal earth & space schema.

Here is a video showing our final earth & space schema papers.

Our learning and thinking will change over the next few weeks!