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Astronomy Lesson 4b: More Main Idea and Paraphrasing

alicemercer — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:12:39 +0000

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 you go to and paste that in your comment.

Astronomy Lesson 4: Research – How to paraphrase

alicemercer — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:42:14 +0000

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 do:

You will go to one of the resources you get from these links, and
Find a paragraph to summarize or paraphrase (that means to put it in your own words and shorten it).
You will copy (CTRL-C) and paste (CTRL-V) the paragraph in the comment box below, then BELOW the paragraph, you will put what it says in your own words.
You will also copy the URL (the link at the top) from the page you go to and paste that in your comment.

Astronomy Lesson 3b: Research Topics

alicemercer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:47:49 +0000

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 spacecraft and explorers (like Voyager)
Manned spacecraft and missions (like the Space Shuttle, and Apollo Moon missions)
Stars and galaxies

Astronomy Lesson 3: Solstice and Equinox

alicemercer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:41:38 +0000

Astronomy Lesson 2: Solstice

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:02:45 +0000

What makes summer warm and the days long? What makes winter cold and the days shorter?

Astronomy Lesson 1: What do you know?

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:41:49 +0000

I’m going to call you back in groups to share what you already know about astronomy on this VoiceThread: