Week of 5/11 - 5/15 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-specific 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 42 Week of 5/11 - 5/15 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 Sketch any of the following rectangle that you roll to put the straw astronomy drawing prompts. Topics Mars is 114.41 million miles in. Decorate the rocket in any way will also be posted on the South away. How fast would you desired.Roll the rectangle the long View Facebook page along with have to travel to get there in way- tightly around a pencil and tape other information about astronomy: 50 years? 5 years? 5 days? 5 the paper to keep it rolled. Fold it over asteroids, Milky Way, Man in the min? at the top and secure the fold with tape Moon, Aurora Borealis Sky, comet, to keep it down. You should have one solar system, satellite, and star end of the paper closed (taped down) 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! 43 Week of 5/11 - 5/15 The study of mars has been around since the Ancient Egyptians Inside the orbit of Jupiter, our astronomers. Galileo studied Mars with solar system has five large his own designed telescope in 1610. objects; four of these are the The War of the Worlds is a famous Since then Mars has been a hot topic planets Mercury, Venus, Earth science fiction story by H.G. Wells of research. Since the 1960's NASA and Mars. The fifth object is was also an infamous radio has sent many multi-robotic spacecraft our own moon! These objects broadcast in 1938 that caused a to explore the planet. In 1920, the are almost perfectly round, panic because people thought temperature was measured at - but they are not all the same Martians really were invading Earth! 85degrees to 7 degrees C. Before that size. From the clues below, Draw a picture of a "Martian" as you even in 1877 refined maps were being can you figure out just how imagine it, or, even better, if you can created about the Red Planet by large the planet Mars is in do some research, draw a Martian as researchers. Before that, in 1870 there kilometers? Clue 1 – Mercury H.G. Wells described them. Pretend were yellow clouds observed on Mars is 7/5 the diameter of the you are an art director in charge of a thought to be sand blowing/windstorms Moon. Clue 2 – The Moon is remake of the movie (it's already I am thinking that led to the refined 7/25 the diameter of Earth been made into a movie at least 6 maps in 1877. Then in 1947 the Clue 3 – Mars is 7/5 the times) and you need to show a atmosphere was researched by Gerad diameter of Mercury Clue 4 – sketch of how you will depict the Kuiper. Mars has always been a hot The diameter of Earth is Martians to your director. topic for research. You need to create 13,000 kilometers ( 8,000 a timeline and label it using the miles). information so that you can use this information on building a colony. 44 Week of 5/11 - 5/15 Make a Paper Mars Helicopter: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, launching in Create a stained glass suncatcher of July 2020, will carry the first helicopter Mars by gathering some liquid glue, to the surface of Mars! This helicopter a plastic circular lid and some food Create the rocketship that will has to be super lightweight to fly on dye or paint. First, cover the inside of take you and your friends to Mars, where there is a thin atmosphere. your lid using your liquid glue. We Mars is known as the “Red mars. What do you think it will It also needs large blades that can know that Mars is called the "Red Planet” because the soil is be made of? What is its rotate really fast so it can generate Planet", so drop in some colors using filled with orange-red shape...why? How many enough lift to overcome the gravity of food dye or paint to create a swirl of particles. The gravity of Mars people will it hold? What the Red Planet and lift off the ground. warm colors (Red, Orange and is 38% of Earth's gravity. safety mechanisms will need Mars’s atmosphere has only 1% of the Yellow). Use the end of a paintbrush Calculate your weight on to be thought of. Draw the particles of Earth’s atmosphere. To or a toothpick to mix up your colors a Mars. (Multiply your weight in ship and label all the parts of generate enough lift for the Mars bit. Let your creation dry overnight. pounds by 0.38). it, then write an informative helicopter, engineers gave it two sets of When it is dry, pop your stained article about your ship. enormous blades that are 4 feet (1.2 glass out of the lid by gently pushing meters) across and rotate about 10 or bending it. Hang up your times as fast as helicopters on Earth. masterpiece in the window and Experiment with the design of your enjoy! helicopter to see what works best. A Martian year is 687 days. You are now tasked with describing There are 365 days per year One of the interesting things about the new music the colonists have on Earth. If you are 10 years gravity on other planets is how our created on Mars. Make sure you old, you have lived 3,650 weight "changes" on other planets in answer all of the following questions. days. How many days would our solar system. When working out, Create a poster to advertise you have to live to be 10 one of the ways to challenge your What's the speed of the music your new colony on Mars. years old on Mars? Calculate body is to add weight. Instead of (tempo)? Why should people want to your age on Mars. Multiply throwing them away, wash out 2 gallon leave Earth and relocate to your Earth age by 365. That milk jugs (or half-gallon if that is what What instruments are playing? your colony? Why would it be will give you the amount of you have) milk jugs - with soap and better than Earth? Be days lived on Earth as of your water- and then fill them with water How loud or soft is it (dynamics)? creative! last birthday.