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- 1. Stars Technology Integration Designed For 5th Grade. By: Nicole Arata
- 2. Rationale Stars are easily visible from anywhere on Earth. We see them every night, when we look up high in the sky. They are a reminder of all the wonders and mysteries that go beyond planet earth. By using multimedia technology we can learn more in-depth about these beautiful starts and their features, along with viewing them up close. Three- dimensional digital models, pictures and videos will bring to life the student’s imagination more than a picture in a book and a teacher’s descriptions.
- 3. Internet Images When searching“stars” on Google, there are many amazing images for the students to observe.
- 4. Internet Blog This blog is written by Don Pettit, who is an Astronaut at NASA. He brings starts to a whole new level of excitement when he describes how he can examine and take photos of stars using a special camera.
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- 6. YouTube Content A YouTubevideo made by a student a little older than the children themselves, will grab their attention on learning about the stars. This video is full of information that is taught in a fun way, encouraging the students to get involved in their learning without them even knowing it. This is a perfect way to incorporate digital and analog mediums.
- 7. Video from KhanAcademy This video goes into detail on massive stars. What fifth grader would not want to learn about this!? The video gives a visual on the different stages it takes to become a massive star.
- 8. nasa.gov also knownas the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is a great internet resource that allows the students to collect a ton of information/pictures on anything to do with space.
- 9. The Hubblesite allows studentsto experience a The Smithsonian National journey to a black hole by Air and Space Museum creating their own allows students from out destination. They choose of state be able to take a what path they want, and online fieldtrip to the get to ride in their own museum itself! It also stimulation spacecraft to get to their black hole. offers different activities This website is extremely and videos to do with your fun for kids! class!
- 10. Inspiration This is agraphic organizer from Inspiration, explaining the life cycle of a star.
- 11. Teaching Materials This worksheet shows the different constellations that can be viewed during the different seasons. The students will be able to This is a fun activity that the teacher record their own data on stars by can put up on her projector. He/She using the stars location and can block out the names of the magnitude on the chart provided. constellations to see if the students They can experience what it feels can name them and find them. They like to work at NASA themselves. can turn out the lights and turn their This activity will use spreadsheets classroom into a mini planetarium. and Microsoft Excel, allowing This is also a great activity that will students to also work on their want to make their students go home technology skills. and show their parents..
- 12. Teaching Materials Continued… This kid friendly video explores This is a fun activity that the life cycle of stars with not only gets the whole class information to be heard, but with visuals. It also asks questions on involved. They are not only the side of the video for the learning science, but also students to answer while watching working on their math skills. to keep them alert. At the end, The students will get to there is a quiz the students can take figure out how old they are as a class to test how much they have learned. based on light years.
- 13. Science NetLinks hasmany different resources such as tools, activities and lessons on space related topics. This website is great because it allows one to narrow their search to the topic and grade they are looking for. This website is a fast, reliable source to make teaching fun!
- 14. Think Quest isa great educational website that both the students and teacher can use to explore all about stars! There are many different links that the students can click on to get different information they wonder about stars!
- 15. Enchanted Learning isan amazing website filled with tons of useful and educational learning for the students. They can get their questions answered about almost anything, and have so many different options to explore.
- 16. How else isthere a better way to enhance collaboration between the teacher and students than facebook! Facebook is what almost every kid has these days. NASA’s facebook page is constantly adding new photos, videos, and information to their page about what is going on in space!