Week 1: Sun, Earth and the Moon
What are your best understandings about? What did you do in the lab today? Today, we learned about our teachers, our classmates, and the rules of the class. We also learned about the stars, the Earth, and the Moon. We learned about the seasons and why the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have opposite seasons. I learned that seasons happen because of the amount of direct sunlight the hemisphere receives. What was the big question? Where are the Moon, Sun, and Earth compared to each other for the different Moon phases? What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion? In Thursday's discussion, I learned that Pluto got kicked out of the planets because Pluto was not created during the plane of the ecliptic. What did you learn? I learned that geocentrism is when the Earth is...