All About Observations!
Da Moon!
Sun and Earth
Seasonal Seasonalities
Knowing Mr. C
100
Information gathered through one or more of the five senses.
What is an observation?
100
What moon phase is this?
What is a full moon?
100
The earth rotates along this invisible line
What is its axis?
100
The "top half" of the earth?
What is the northern hemisphere?
100
The science that Mr. C studied in college.
What is geology? Other acceptable answers: geoscience, earth science
200
The 5 senses we use to make observations
What are:
Sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing
200
The word used to describe the moon as it seems to get larger from a new moon to full moon cycle?
What is waxing?
200
Moving around another object, the way the moon does around the earth, and the earth does around the sun.
What is to revolve?
200
Shadows during this season are longer
What is winter?
200
Mr. C's dog's name
What is Hank
300
These describe a quantity or numerical amount of something
What is a quantitative observation?
300
The moon's shape when more than half the moon is shining?
What is a gibbous?
300
The direction the earth spins
What is counterclockwise?
300
2 reasons for the seasons
What are: earth's tilted axis, and direct vs indirect sunlight on earth
300
Hank's Breed
What is a mix? Specifically - Beagle, Bassett, Corgi, German Shepherd
400
Logical explanations or interpretations of what was observed.
What are inferences
400
The name of the moon phase when you can only see exactly half of a moon
What is a quarter moon (or 3rd quarter moon)?
400
Use a shadow clock to demonstrate the location of the sun's current position and time.
Hope they did it!
400
What season is the northern hemisphere experiencing? Explain how you know
Summer! You can tell because the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun and you can see the resulting direct light impacting the surface while the southern hemisphere is only receiving indirect light.
400
Any college/university attended by Mr. C
PCC, UC Davis, University of Cincinnati
500
Something interesting that happens in the world around us
What is a phenomenon (phenomena)?
500
Tonight, the moon will be full. A week and a half ago, less than half of the moon was shining in the night sky.
What was the moon phase a week and a half ago?
Waxing crescent
500
When you watch a sunset, is the Sun really moving across the sky? What's happening? (COMPLETE ANSWERS ONLY)
No, the Sun is not moving across the sky. The Sun always stays in the same spot, but the Earth is spinning (rotating) around its axis. It looks like the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but it is caused by the Earth rotating away from the Sun.
500
What season is shown in the southern hemisphere?
What is autumn/fall
500
The neighborhood in Los Angeles Mr. C is from
What is Highland Park?