Room 2 - 2014: Note Taking

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Earth Science and The Moon

Moon Investigation

Work as a team to collect information and make notes on the Moon.

Kahoot Quiz at 10.10 am

Skills - Searching - Note Taking - Questioning - Thinking

1. Review the questions to see which ones you might already know the answer to.
2. Use KEYWORDS when you search for information
3. Look under Google Images as well as web searching - you might find a useful diagram or picture
4. Write your search questions in a simple concise way

I have highlighted keywords to help you and suggested some search questions.

Ready for launch?

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 blast off!

Apollo 8 Launch

Search Help: Apollo fuel consumption

Moon Walk - Reconstruction

Crater Experiment

Phases of the Moon

Make a copy in your journal

Search Help: Lunar Month Length

How far is the Moon from the Earth?
How big is the Moon compared to the Earth?
What keeps the Moon from floating off into space?
What is the moon made of?
Why are there so many craters on the Moon?
Why does the Moon shine at night?
Can the Moon be seen during the day?
Does the Moon have any effect upon the Earth?
How long is a lunar month?
What is a lunar month?
Why do they need to wear spacesuits on the Moon?
Why do the astronauts bounce as they walk?
How heavy is the Moon?
How much gravity does the Moon have compared to the Earth?
How much would you weigh on the Moon?
Who was the first person to go into space?
Which space mission was the first to journey around the Moon and back to Earth?
Which astronauts walked on the Moon first?
What is a cosmonaut?
How much rocket fuel did the Apollo _ use to get into space?
How long does it take to get to the Moon?
How to spacemen go to the toilet in zero gravity?
What famous words did Neil Armstrong say just before he took the first steps on the Moon?

If the Moon has so many craters why doesn't the Earth?

What's different about the environment on the Moon

and

what does this mean for the life span of footprints and craters?

Is a NEW MOON bright or dark?

Where is the Moon compared to the Sun and Earth when we see a FULL MOON?

Search Help: Moon dimensions gravity and weight

Do other planets have moons?

Do any planets have more than one moon?

Are all moons made of rock?

Why do planets have moons?

Earth Science - Our Changing Planet

Take a tour of some amazing Earth facts and concepts.

Take Notes - in your journal
and
Research the questions below
then take part in a Kahoot Quiz at 10.10 am

The best information hunters will be the winners.

Plate Tectonics - This video shows how the solid crust of the Earth has moved over millions of years to form different continents. See if you can spot the moment when Africa and South America split apart.

How old is the Earth?
How far is it to the centre of the Earth?
What are the four parts of the Earth as you go towards the centre?
How thick is the crust?
What is a subduction zone?
What is continental drift?
How much taller do the Himalayas get every year?
How deep is the Marianus Trench?
What is the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
What are the three main rock types? Volcanic, M.... , Se....
How hot is it at the centre of the Earth?
How far is the Earth from the Sun?
What did they call the super-continent that existed when all the land was joined together?
Why do we get volcanoes near a subduction zone?
What is the core made of?
How long is a year?
What is a day?

Use your Google searching skills to find out as much as you can.

Look carefully at the diagrams below - they might help too.

Check out these diagrams - Recreate one in your journal

Subduction Zone

Convergent Plates - Mountain Building

Divergent Plates

Sea floor spreading

Classification

Main Rock Types

Earth Science

So you wanted to know about volcanoes?

Watch this video and make some notes about how volcanoes are formed.

Draw a diagram

Write down the key words

Find out the answer to these questions:

How old is the Earth?

What is the radius of the Earth in km?

How thick is the crust?

What are some of the different types of eruption and what material comes out of a volcano?

Experiment Time - Science and Technology Room

Wonders of the World

Mt Everest

Watch this short video
Use a whole page in your learning journal to take notes about this great mountain
Include keywords, dates, people, measurements, 10 to 20 facts, pictures, diagrams, colour

Make your notes memorable.

The Grand Canyon

Note Taking Skills

Watch this short youtube video and then in your journal create a page of notes that include the top 10 facts that stood out most for you. (yes you can watch the video more than once)

Don't try and get all the information or just copy it word for word.

Be thoughtful and decide what's important. Just write down keywords and ideas then use some colour and add some illustrations or a diagram as part of your notes.

City Art Project

Take a look at these word clouds

They represent the top ideas from your thinking about what you value most about school and learning

The next step is to use these ideas to help us get some direction for our city art work.

Decide on some keywords that you want to try to express in a visual way.

Take a look at these images.

The Great Wall

The Great Wall of China

step 1. note taking

In your journal draw and note down the keywords and facts about the Great Wall - in 20 minutes.

what, where, when, why, who, how

The Great Wall of China is made up of a number of different sections.

These sections were built over a long period of time from stone and other materials.

They were built to protect against attacks and invasions from the north.

The Great Wall of China stretches around 6300 kilometres in length.

If you measure the length of all the different sections of wall, the distance is more like 22000 kilometres

The Great Wall of China is the longest structure ever built by humans.

The widest section of the wall is around 9 metres

The highest point of the wall is around 8 metres

The first parts of the wall were built over 2000 years ago.

A large number of workers have lost their lives while building the wall.

Earlier sections of the wall were made from stone, wood and compacted earth.

While some parts of the wall have been preserved or renovated, other parts have been vandalised or destroyed to make way for construction.

Rumours that astronauts can see the Great Wall of China from the Moon with the naked eye are untrue.

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Step 2. Brainstorm words to describe - teacher

size

shape

texture

number

position location

colour

age

movement

like a...

Step 3.

Use your notes and brainstorm words

Use facts combined with descriptive words to create a set of 10 expressive sentences about the Great Wall

Step 4.

Editing Sentences - simple - compound - complex

Make the model
Paper Toys

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

Step 1. note taking

In your journal draw and note down the keywords and facts about the Eiffel tower.

what, where, when, why, who, how

Built in 1889

as the entrance arch for the

World's Fair in 1889

Location Paris, France

Stands 320 metres high

Made of 18,038 pieces of iron

weighs around 10000 tonnes

and joined by two-and-a-half million rivets

visited by

250 million visitors since its opening

The tower was built despite protests from 300 leading French writers and artists

who saw it as a “hateful column of bolted sheet metal”.

When it was opened the lifts in the tower were not yet operating, so they went up the stairs on foot.

It took more than an hour to reach the top!

Visit the Eiffel Tower