This week class was out of this world!!.. Literally. The topic we focused on this week was space science. Outer Space is a topic that is so vast. You can focus on the United States and the space race or you can focus on the planets. The ideas are endless. As a class we were each required to create a scrap book of articles all about space. I made my digital scrapbook using Glogster. You can find my glog HERE! These articles are all from Newsela and interested me in different aspects of space. After creating our scrapbooks of articles we were then separated into groups. As a group we brainstormed which topics and words came up the most often in our articles as well as what interested us. With these words we created a word cloud to display all of the words! Word clouds are great to introduce a topic, you can ask students what looks familiar and what does not. A word cloud could then lead into a KWL chart. Students can list the words they already know, the words the want to know and then finally after the lesson they will write the new words they learned. The next task for our group was to create a timeline of space based on some of the words. As a group we split up the words evenly and got straight to work researching. We each found one or two popular events regarding the word/ concept to add to our timeline. Our timeline was created using Tiki-toki an online resource that allows you to make 3D timelines! Once we finished our timeline and viewed it, it was as if we were actually traveling through time starting with the big bang going all the way to present day! What a cool idea for teaching history you can "time-travel" as a class!
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