Reverse key

WALT: We know that we stick to the earth, with
the help of gravity...but what if gravity didn’t exist?  What would you do?

Bullet point 16 ideas.

• Wear heavy shoes
• Swim in the air
• Float
• Fly
• Tape me to the ground
• Drink fizzy in the air
• Try to build a device so I can have gravity
• Eat in mid air
• Sleep in the air
• Play rugby with no gravity
• Throw a chip in the air and eat
• Watch t.v
• Climb mount Everest
• Wear heavy clothes
• Wear a jetpack
• Have a trampoline

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Variations Key

WALT: How many ways can you think of to get people treating our earth better?
Design a poster that could be displayed around our community.

• Recycle
• food scraps in bin
• use solar energy
• walk
• use fruit for compost
• Save your money
• use money wisely
• don't waste paper
• don't use light bulbs and use the sun

BAR Key

WALT: Use the BAR key to improve the design of at least two of these options..Spaceship,Rocket,Satellite,Astronaut uniform.

Make the astronauts suits grey. WHY? So they can be camouflage to the moon.

Have a microwave in the rocket. WHY? So they can eat pizza.

Link for the photo

Question Key

WALT: Write 24 questions that would give this answer the sun.

What one other word for solar?

What is the biggest star?

What is a giant hydrogen bomb?

What is an giant magnet?

What is the hottest thing instead of venus?

What has solar flares?

What is the biggest thing in the solar system?

What makes day?

What can fit 145 million earths inside?

What makes us warm?

What makes plant grow?

What makes the planets orbit around the sun?

What makes fire?

What makes refraction?

How can you get sunburn?

How can you get cancer?

What makes us not freeze?

What make us tired?

What is hotter than lava?

What makes sunshine?

What could come to us and burn us?

What makes us blind when there's an eclipse?

What is bigger than a gas giant?

What is close to mercury and is not a planet?

Comparison key

What are the similarities and differences between Mars and Earth?

You could use a Venn diagram or T-Chart to organise your thinking.

Interview key

WALT:  Write what you imagine the Sun would say to answer each of your questions

• Why can’t you move?
• If you were a person was career would you have?
• How did you get created?
• When did you get created?
• Why do you have solar flares?
• Why do you have solar storms?
• What is the best planet?
• What are your favourite planets?
• What do you think would happen if you weren’t a giant magnet?
• If you didn’t exist what do you think would without you?
• If you were any specie you wanted to be what would it be?
• If you were a human which planet would you live on?
• If you had one wish what would it be?

What if? Key

WALT: 
What if we started building houses on the moon?  
Who would live there?
What might the consequences of this be?  
Do you agree to do this?

I really like that idea if you build a house on the moon.

I think the people should live on the moon should the people that made up the idea.
I agree to this idea but the consequences could be that there are millions of asteroids and it could hit the earth.

I think you could run out of oxygen.

Prediction key

WALT Draw a labelled diagram of your prediction.

Picture key

What could be happening in this picture?  Come up with a thoughtful and creative story for each picture.

The legend of the Neil Monk strong

In 1200 A.D there was a monkey called Neil Monk strong.

Neil was a trained astronaut that was called to go on a mission.

The mission he had was to be the first monkey to go on the moon.

At the international space station Neil Monk Strong was in the rocket.

5!

4!

3!

2!

1!

BLAST OFF!

While Neil Monk strong was in the rocket he nearly crashed into a meteorite.

The meteorite was gigantic like neptune.

When he dodged the meteorite he landed on the moon.

When he landed on the moon he had to take samples of the moon.

After that he stepped into a shadow and it looked like he had a frost bite.

Quickly he ran into his rocket and went to the sun.

On the way he was freezing up to his neck.

Finally he reached the sun and he was back to normal.

When he arrived at the space station the were releaved.

Season Poem

WALT: create a season poem.

My animation about the Solar System

WALT: creating an animation on what happens in the solar system.

Moon Phases

WALT: using google drawings to create the different moon phases.

Why do we have seasons?

Why do we have seasons?

Due to the orbiting of the earth we have seasons.

First there are four seasons in a year. In addition New Zealand have winter in June, July and August. Summer is in December , January and February. Autumn is in March , April and May. Spring is in September , October and November.

Secondly  the sun is the center of the solar system.

Planet earth revolves around the sun.

The axis of the earth is tilted.

Since the earth is tilted , for part of the year, one of the hemisphere is warmer and the other hemisphere is cooler. One of the hemisphere is northern hemisphere and the other is southern hemisphere.

Thirdly the northern hemisphere is leaning towards the sun. To make spring and autumn the northern hemisphere has to be either tilted toward the sun or away from it.

So temperatures during spring and fall are moderate: not too hot and not too cold. Later then if the southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun or away from it , then it would be winter and summer.

Finally one hemisphere gets more sunlight it’s summer.

If there is not that much sunlight then it is winter.

In conclusion : The season that you're experiencing right this very minute is caused in  part by the amount of direct sunlight you're getting.

So seasons are caused by the Earth's tilt on its axis as it cruise around the sun in its orbit.

How to create a word find

WALT: Invent a game for others to play on the moon!

Who is your target audience?  What will your game be named? What outfit will players be wearing?  What equipment will you need to play? What are the rules?

To make  a word find you need to go on this site

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle_wordcross

After you have clicked on the link then follow the instructions.

Later when you have finished the instructions then it would look like this.

Who's the best?

WALT : work as a team.

 What challenged me in the play was speaking loudly and being confident in front of the classroom.