Sections on assessment and description of how to set up your own Math Around the World festival. The Solar System and Beyond. Exciting NEW unit opens with students receiving a simulated binary-coded message from space. As they begin to interpret the message, they journey through our own solar system and beyond. Using simple lenses, students explore how cameras, telescopes, and slide projectors work.
Students learn that lenses have measurable properties that determine appropriate applications.
Background section offers information on physics, optics, and the human eye. Four sessions, grades 6-9. Students construct a model watershed using pool grade diatomaceous earth and a simple drip system. By running river models, students are introduced to the concepts of erosion, geological sequencing, watershed concepts and human effects. Seven sessions, grades 6-9.