Service Learning - Holiday Crafts PS 102

Students worked with kids at PS 102 to make holiday crafts.

Massive Movement Project Videos

Class J

Class K

Class L

Class M

Check out our class blogs!!

CLICK HERE --> Earth Science Student Blogs

Service Learning - Momentum AIDS

Starry, Starry Night Project

SEMESTER EXTRA CREDIT

You can complete as many of the following EXTRA CREDIT opportunities that you would like to make up for a missed assignment or to raise your grade on an assignment you already completed.

TOPICS

1. Rotation & Revolution
2. Seasons
3. Solstices & Equinoxes
4. Phases of the Moon
5. Eclipses
6. Tides

You must complete ALL of the following parts (Vocabulary, Summary, Diagram, Questions and Oral Defense) of as many TOPICS (Rotation/Revolution, Seasons, Solstice/Equinox, Phases of the Moon, Eclipses & tides) as you like.

You can put all of this information into any form that you like to present it to me; book, newspaper, paper, poster, blog entry, PowerPoint, video, etc...

For each of the following topics, you must complete the following:

1. Vocabulary: construct a chart including the word, your native language and definition of each related word in the topic
2. Summary: write a paragraph summarizing the main ideas of the topic; MUST include ALL of the vocabulary from the topic
3. Diagram(s): illustrate a detailed diagram(s) describing all of the vocabulary words from the topic, label the parts of the diagram(s)
4. Questions: create 10 quiz questions about this topic
5. **Oral Defense: defend your knowledge of the topic by answering a series of related questions on the topic and get teacher approval on the work

** YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE TOPIC FOR CREDIT; No credit will be awarded if you do not PASS the Oral Defense**

The Massive Movement Project

Check out the Massive Movement Project Glog!

It will have all of the information you need to complete this project. :)

Earth's Movement Vocabulary

Spectral Classes

	Spectral Class Temperature	Color
O	30,000 - 60,000 K	Blue stars
B	10,000 - 30,000 K	Blue-white stars
A	7,500 - 10,000 K	White stars
F	6,000 - 7,500 K	Yellow-white stars
G	5,000 - 6,000 K	Yellow stars (like the Sun)
K	3,500 - 5,000K	Orange stars
M	3,000	Red stars

Service Learning - NY Cares Day 2010

Students worked together to help re-paint murals in a gym in Crown Heights as part of New York Cares Day. October 23, 2010

The Universe Vocabulary

Starry, Starry Night Project Website Links

Click on the following links to help find information about your constellation:

GENERAL INFORMATION

www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm

www.dibonsmith.com/binoc_tb.htm

www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellation_list.html

www.seds.org/Maps/Stars_en/Fig/const.html

www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/15-science/102-star-a-constellations.html

www.coldwaterschools.org/lms/planetarium/myth/index.html

www.windows2universe.org/mythology/const_nav.html

MYTHOLOGY

http://comfychair.org/~cmbell/myth/myth.html

STAR INFORMATION

STAR MAPS

http://cascaeducation.ca/files/tour_nightsky.html

PICTURES

www.allthesky.com/constellations/const.html

Starry, Starry Night Extra Credit

EXTRA CREDIT #1 (10 points)

Go to this website:

http://www.space.com/media/video/player.php

• Choose a video to watch
• Watch the movie
• Now watch it again, take notes on the main points and vocabulary words
• Write a summary of the video in one paragraph

EXTRA CREDIT #2 (10 points)

Star Box

• Paint or color the inside of shoe box black.
• Draw the constellation inside on the back of the box
• Place glow-in-the-dark stickers on the constellation OR poke holes through the box and add christmas lights
• Do a short write up summarizing the story/myth of your constellation to add onto the box

Our Shaking World Project

Topic: Dynamic Earth

- Continental Drift (Pangaea, Fossil Record & Geologic Record)
- Plate Tectonics
- Convection Currents
- Earth's Interior
- Plate Boundaries (Convergent, Divergent & Transform)
- Volcanoes
- Earthquakes
- Faults & Forces
- Earthquake Waves
- Earthquake Epicenters
- Mountain Building

Students worked individually in heterogenous table groups to complete this Menu Project. There were 4 layers the students were required to complete including a final presentation of their work. Students were able to choose from the Project Menu what type of work they wanted to complete for each layer. v,hgw/.,

Service Learning - Hands on NY Day

Students worked together with community members and other schools to help beautify a park in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

Plate Tectonics Project Videos

Students created videos of all of their work from the Shaking Our World project.

Adrian Tamayo - Philippines



Benedicte Jolimeau - Haiti



Albert Chakhalya - Georgia



Chamil Martinez (Dominican Republic) & Konstantin Nuksha (Latvia)



Amadou Barry - Guinea



Jan Nicole Garcia - Mexico



Juan Jose Guiterrez - Mexico



Xiao Yu Li (China) & Manuel Scantlebury (Panama)



Ava Li - China

Plate Tectonics - Ava from Kara MacDevitt on Vimeo.

Mohamed Badr - Egypt

Plate Tectonics - Mohamed from Kara MacDevitt on Vimeo.

Mifetaou Amadou - Togo

Earth Science Project - Mifetaou from Kara MacDevitt on Vimeo.

Jak Kutlukov - Uzbekistan

Kara's Internship