Inquiry: Bus Stop Activity

This week for inquiry, we have started a new rotation. To start off we have had a bus stop activity to complete. The point of this activity was to activate our prior knowledge, and to build it. Prior knowledge is what you already know, and to build it is to expand your knowledge. Because our topic is space, our questions were What do we know about science, What do we know about space, How does space affect us on earth, What do you know about the planets in our solar system, What do you know about the moon, What do you know about the sun, and finally What words do you know that are associated with space. For this task, Learning Space 2 collaborated with Learning Space 1, and we have all enjoyed it.

Stardome

Last night we went on a trip to stardome and that was a really fun night they showed us into a room were the roof was a very big projector and they showed and told us a lot of this about the sun, space, constellation and also a few facts about Jupiter and Saturn. We first learnt about the stars and what type of stars their are like the different types of suns and the star constellation I learnt that the first star to show in the sky is actually a sun an it is just a bit bigger than our sun. There are multiple constellation such as scorpion, Maui's hook and sagittarius the archer they were the constellation that we were looking at when we were looking at the constellations and if you can't find sagittarius all you have to do is look for a teaspoon and a teapot. Afterwards we started talking about Jupiter and saturn the first thing we were learning about was the amount of moons that it had and there are 67 moon that is circling Jupiter. Then we learnt about Saturn and what happens every 14 years when the rings of Saturn would disappear  and reappear.