Today we were learning about day and night. We brainstormed all the different things we knew about day and all the things we thought of when we imagined night. Then we put our words into a Tagxedo to see what it looked like. It was really pretty!
We choose the rooster for daytime because he crows in the morning and a star for the night-time words because the stars come out at night!
Then we looked at a programme called Stellarium. This is really cool because it lets you fast forward time so that you can see the stars - even in the middle of the day!
We looked at Mars (which is really bright at the moment - and a little bit orangey),
Ursa Major or the Big Bear (which has the Plough/Saucepan in it)
and the North Star (which always shows you the way north and never moves - even if you fast forward through three days and nights!).
You can find the North Star by drawing an imaginary line up from the two stars that make the side of the saucepan in Ursa Major.
The North Star is also called Polaris - kinda like the North Pole!
1 comments:
Fascinating observations. I always know it's night time because I'm tired then!
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