Pumpkin Planets 10/11/11

October 6 and October 11, 2011
Click the videos below to view them. Boy's Working Together Girls at Work Maps in the Room	These students are learning about the cardinal and intermediate directions. Some pictures show them adding compass roses to their pumpkin globes, and then trying to determine how well the compass roses work on their globes. The compass roses work well at the equator, but when the students moved their compass roses to the south poles of their pumpkin globes all the arrows pointed north. We extended this lesson by using Google Earth to view the earth's north and south poles. Other pictures show them trying to identify directions on make-believe maps. On some of these maps, they created challenges for their partners.	Click the videos below to view them. Note: I accidently used the wrong video camera and these files are very large--you may have trouble downloading them. Sorry. Everything's North! Good Explanation! These Girls are Thinking! They Got It!

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