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

Service Learning

December 22, 2009 - Holiday Party

Service Learning - Coat Drive

Students help sort coats that were donated to NY Cares that were to be given to shelters around NYC.
We sorted over 500 coats!

Water Cycle Claymation Videos

February 2009

Students created these videos about the phases of the Water Cycle using clay. The videos were shot with a still camera and put into iMovie and made into a video. The students added text, music and their voices to the videos as well.

Science Class: Ecology Travel Guide

In this project students were asked to complete a portion of a Guide Book about a specific country as a group. Each student had a part that they were required to complete for the book. Each student was also required to research a specific plant and animal from their given country.

Here are the roles assigned to each student:

Student A - Location, Temperature, Rainfall & Biotic/Abiotic Factors
Student B - Food Chains/Webs, Photosynthesis & Energy Pyramid
Student C - Cycles, Carrying Capacity, Biodiversity & Competition
Student D - Invasive species, Niche, Symbiosis & Succession

After they completed their books they presented the ecology of their country to the class in an oral presentation.