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Astronomy Lesson 4b: More Main Idea and Paraphrasing

December 4th, 2009 · 24 Comments

You will do a Google search to find a resource, or go to one of  these links.
Find a paragraph to summarize or paraphrase (that means to put it in your own words and shorten it).
Write what you learned in your own words
You will also copy the URL (the link at the top) from the page [...]

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Astronomy Lesson 4: Research – How to paraphrase

November 29th, 2009 · 13 Comments

You will be learning an important lesson in research, how to put things into your own words, so you are not copying the words of others. This is important, because just copying is something called plagiarism, and can get you in a lot of trouble at school, and in life. Here is what you will [...]

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Astronomy Lesson 3b: Research Topics

November 23rd, 2009 · 11 Comments

Now is the time when you get to pick a topic to research in Astronomy. Send me a note with two choices of topics you would like to look into and write about.
Possible topics:

A planet (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus)
Dwarf planets (like Pluto or Eris), comets and asteroids, or the Kuiper Belt
The sun
Unmanned [...]

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Astronomy Lesson 3: Solstice and Equinox

November 13th, 2009 · No Comments

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