Science Challenge Voicethread

My technology enhanced science activity will be about the phases of the moon. My students will do a whole unit on the moon and will observe and draw the moon each night from a new moon to a full moon. We will have a class discussion about the different shapes of the moon and why the moon is different shapes. The class will learn about the relative position of the earth, moon, and sun for a new moon, full moon, half moon, and three quarter moon.

i. The content I will be focusing on with my science activity is 6th grade standard 1, objective 2, part c which is modeling the different positions of the earth, sun, and moon.

ii. The pedagogy that this will focus on is constructing. This is a hands on learning activity where the students will construct the different positions and relationships of the sun, the moon, and the earth for each of the shapes of the moon.

iii. The content I will be using is Kidsperation. This is a great fit with the content because it has built in templates for concept mapping of a variety of different science concepts including the phases of the moon. It also fits well with the pedagogy because it allows the students to model, on the computer, the different positions of the sun, moon, and earth.