Isabel Sherman: Elementary Science Methods 2024-2025

  Big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did This week in lab we made a timeline of Earth! Prior to that, we talked about how one event millions of years ago impacted the voting trends of 2008! I thought this was an excellent way of bringing in social studies, history, and science all at once! Then we got into making the timeline of the Earth. It was really cool that Ted laid out the timeline, then had us put four different events on the timeline prior to us reading and interacting with material that could help us. I was the most confident on where I put humans, I know in the grand scheme of things we have not been around for long. I would love to be discussing this all to a young student and have discussions about what was happening on Earth prior to us. The conversation really puts into perspective how small we all are.  No lecture Space Exam! Answer questions about the weekly textbook reading I learned about geological time, and the use of that time sc...

  Week 8  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did In lab we got to give our presentations! My group talked about black holes! Some highlights of the lab were the Origins of the Universe –the Big bang and creation of the Earth are NOT the same (there are 9 billion years in between). The lifecycle of stars presentation taught me that a shooting star is debris burning up in the atmosphere! I learned from the Galaxies presentation that our galaxy is the Milky Way (not the chocolate nougat). The past and future of Space Travel was discussed and Earths Origins was also discussed, this included a lot of previous disproven theories.  My group talked about Black Holes ! A Description of what you learned in Thursday’s Lecture We learned more about the big bang! It is hard to think about what nothing would have been. We did the math to prove how unlikely it is that we are the only life around. I don’t have the exact number but it was A LOT of 0’s. I le...

  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did? This week we talked about the size of our Solar System. In our group we determined the scale of our solar system. We figured out the size of our planets in relation to one another AND the distance between each of them. Our scale was much larger/longer than other lab groups, which I think was frustrating at times because our planets were the wrong sizes at first! The rocky planets were teeny tiny little specks! We were so worried that we would step on them. This lab, while frustrating at first, showed how big the solar system is! This is a fun lab for students to conceptualize the vastness of not just our solar system but the universe.  Claire as the moon in lecture! A description of what you learned in Thursdays lecture This weeks lecture was focused on the ✨🌙moon 🌙✨. We talked about the four theories of the moon and then we talked about the moon rotating. And that it is in a rotation and goes around the...

2.24-3.1 The big question addressed in the lab, and a description of what you did. At the beginning of class we got to know Ted, and introduce ourselves. Then we did a new blog post to check our understandings of astronomy! We had a few big questions they were, how do the phases of the moon occur, what causes a season and what causes a lunar eclipse? My initial responses to the questions were– How the phases of the moon occur? The moon orbits around the Earth, and as it does it gets lit up by the sun. At night, the moon we see is visible because of the sun. Because it orbits, there are phases! What causes the seasons? The seasons are caused by the Earth’s rotation. When the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun it is in Winter. The Southern Hemisphere at the same time is at summer. What causes a lunar eclipse? A lunar eclipse is when the Sun, Earth, and moon are aligned. So there is a shadow of the Earth on the moon, and there is a ring around moon.  After answering the...