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