5Th and 6Th Grade Builds a Colony on Mars (Week of May 11-15 ) Please Complete Activities from the Choice Board to Be Submitted for Feedback
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This Week's Project/Assignment is--5th and 6th Grade Builds a Colony on Mars (Week of May 11-15 ) Please complete activities from the choice board to be submitted for feedback. We recommend a few activities a day, but feel free to complete more. Feedback may be submitted in one of the following ways: 1. Phone call or email to or from the teacher summarizing learning for the week. 2. Send a message to the teacher or post a picture using a communication platform such as Class Dojo or Google Classroom. ELA Standards/Skills: I can explain my ideas clearly using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation (L.5.2, L.6.1, L.6.2). I can compare and contrast topics. (RI.5.5) Writing and Speaking Standards/Skills: I can write opinion pieces supporting a point of view with reasons and information (W.5.1). I can initiate and participate in collaborative discussions, respond thoughtfully, and propel conversations (SL.5.1, SL.6.1). I can write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas clearly (W.5.2, W.6.2). I can write a narrative. (W.3). I can produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience (W.6.4). I can write for a range of discipline-specifics tasks, purposes, and audiences (W.6.10). Math Standards/Skills: I can find the area of polygons (6.GA.1, 6.GA.4). I can fluently multiply and divide decimals (NBT.5.7). I can solve real world multi-step problems using the correct operations (6.NSA.1). I can represent and interpret data (5.MD.B.2). I can convert like measurement units within a given measurement system (5.MD.A.1). I can find the percent of a quantity (6.RP.3.c). I can multiple and divide fractions to solve a problem (5.NF.7) Social Studies/Science Standards/Skills: I can integrate visual information with other information in print (RH.6-8.7, SS.G.1.6-8LC). I can design, use, and revise models and record the outcomes (SEP.2) Art/Music/Physical Education Standards/Skills: I can organize and develop artistic ideas and work (CR.3). Select or choose music to listen to and explain the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose. (MU:Re7.1.6a ) Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation) are used in performers' and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent (MU:RE8.1.5a) Demonstrate openness in trying new ideas, materials, methods, and approaches in making works of art and design. (VA:Cr2.1.6a) Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice. (VA:Cr2.1.5a) Social English/Language Studies/Science/PLTW/ Art/Music/Physical Math Arts Career and College Education Readiness How will you get to Mars? Build this simple rocket and see how far you can make it fly. You will need a piece of paper, pencil, scissors, straw and tape: Draw a picture of a rocket and a plain rectangle the same size. Cut out these two pieces- the rocket and the rectangle that you roll to put the straw Sketch any of the following astronomy in. Decorate the rocket in any way drawing prompts. Topics will also be Mars is 114.41 million miles away. desired.Roll the rectangle the long posted on South View Facebook page How fast would you have to travel to way- tightly around a pencil and tape along with other information about get there in 50 years? 5 years? 5 days? the paper to keep it rolled. Fold it over astronomy: asteroids, Milky Way, 5 min? at the top and secure the fold with tape Man in the Moon, Aurora Borealis to keep it down. You should have one Sky, comet, solar system, satallite, and end of the paper closed (taped down) star constellations. and one end open for the straw. Tape the rolled piece to the back of the rocket.Insert a straw into the open end of the rolled piece and blow the rocket up into the air~ again and again and again! The study of mars has been around since the Ancient Egyptians astronomners. Galileo studies Mars with his own designed telescope in Inside the orbit of Jupiter, our solar 1610. Since then Mars has been a hot The War of the Worlds is a famous system has five large objects; four of topic of research. Since the 1960's science fiction story by H.G. Wells these are the planets Mercury, Venus, NASA has sent many mutli-robotic that was also an imfamous radio Earth and Mars. The fifth object is our spacecrafts to explore the planet. In broadcast in 1938 that caused a panic own moon! These objects are almost 1920, the temperature was measured at because people though Martians really perfectly round, but they are not all the -85degrees to 7 degrees C. Before that were invading Earth! Draw a pictue of same size. From the clues below, can even in 1877 refined maps were being a "Martian" as you imagine it, or, even you figure out just how large the created about the Red Planet by better, if you can do some research, planet Mars is in kilometers? Clue 1 – researchers. Before that, in 1870 there draw a Martian as H.G. Wells Mercury is 7/5 the diameter of the were yellow clouds observed on Mars described them. Pretend you are an art Moon. Clue 2 – The Moon is 7/25 the thought to be sand director in charge of a remake of the diameter of Earth Clue 3 – Mars is 7/5 blowing/windstorms I am thinking that movie (it's already been made into a the diameter of Mercury Clue 4 – The led to the refined maps in 1877. Then movie at least 6 times) and you need diameter of Earth is 13,000 kilometers in 1947 the atmosphere was researched to show a sketch of how you will ( 8,000 miles). by Gerad Kuiper. Mars has always depict the Martians to your director. been a hot topic for research. You need to create a time line and label it using the information so that you can use this information on building a colony. Make a Paper Mars Helicopter: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, launching in July 2020, will carry the Create a stained glass suncatcher of first helicopter to the surface of Mars! Mars by gathering some liquid glue, a This helicopter has to be super plastic circular lid and some food dye Create the rocketship that will lightweight to fly on Mars, where there or paint. First, cover the inside of your take you and your friends to mars. is a thin atmosphere. It also needs lid using your liquid glue. We know What do you think it will be made Mars is known as the “Red Planet” large blades that can rotate really fast that Mars is called the "Red Planet", so of? What is it's shape...why? because the soil is filled with orange- so it can generate enough lift to drop in some colors using food dye or How many people will it hold? red particles. The gravity of Mars is overcome the gravity of the Red Planet paint to create a swirl of warm colors What safetly mechanisms will 38% of Earth's gravity. Calculate your and lift off the ground. Mars’s (Red, Orange and Yellow). Use the need to be though of. Draw the weight on Mars. (Multiply your weight atmosphere has only 1% of the end of a paintbrush or a toothpick to ship and lable all the parts of it, in pounds by 0.38). particles of Earth’s atmosphere. To mix up your colors a bit. Let your then write an informative article generate enough lift for the Mars creation dry overnight. When it is dry, about your ship. helicopter, engineers gave it two sets pop your stained glass out of the lid by of enormous blades that are 4 feet (1.2 gently pushing or bending it. Hang up meters) across and rotate about 10 your masterpiece in the window and times as fast as helicopters on Earth. enjoy! Experiment with the design of your helicopter to see what works best. You are now tasked with describing the new music the colonists have One of the interesting things about A Martian year is 687 days. There are created on Mars. Make sure you gravity on other planets is how our 365 days per year on Earth. If you are answer all of the following questions. weight "changes" on other planets in 10 years old, you have lived 3,650 our solar system. When working out, days. How many days would you have What's the speed of the music one of the ways to challenge your Create a poster to advertise your to live to be 10 years old on Mars? (tempo)? body is to add weight. Instead of new colony on Mars. Why should Calculate your age on Mars. Multiply throwing them away, wash out 2 people want to leave Earth and your Earth age by 365. That will give What instruments are playing? gallon milk jugs (or half-gallon if that relocate to your colony? Why you the amount of days lived on Earth is what you have) milk jugs - with would it be better than Earth? Be as of your last birthday.