Students will design a web page to be added to their electronic portfolio that demonstrates mastery of all of the skills taught during the seventh grade year. This final presentation will include a moon libration video, an introduction explaining how the video was created, and a summary of the moon's phases and how they affect the earth. This webpage will also include a student podcast!

Among preparations students use for TAKS Reading (Tuesday, April 28th), students will write poetry that relates to science, astronomy, and/or his/her future as part of a self-published book. Students will also see how astronomy fit into the life (and lifestyle) of Mark Twain. Pre-AP students will read and respond to A Wrinkle in Time.

Students will brainstorm and discuss the “Greatest Events in the History of Space Travel,” and write one persuasive paragraph defending their opinion of the most important event. Students will then create a script and produce a podcast in class!

Students will work with the software Celestia to calculate radius, mass, and relative distance in relation to planetary bodies that inhabit our solar system.

Students will conduct research on the moon and gather information and images on the lunar phases in order to write a summary describing the phases of the moon which will be used to create a webpage.

Students will produce a final webpage about space focusing primarily on lunar phases. Each webpage will contain a lunar “movie” created from Celestia video in addition to the summary paragraph and images from science, and the podcast from Social Studies.