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Sun Catcher Alarms & Folk Tale Shadow Puppets or Light Shows

This STEM Unit is based on the science of the sun, moon, and stars, focusing on how light creates shadows and colors, and story telling tall tales using flashlights or projectors (modelling the sun) to present their tall tales.
 
Second grade will integrate science with math by building a device that uses light and shadow to record time. Second grade will integrate science with ELA by reading several tall tales, and then writing original tall tales about how the sun, moon
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, stars, seasons, or crops came to be. Students will write scripts for their originall tall tales instoryboards in Computer Lab, and then presenting some form of a light show, either shadow puppet show, or light show through animation, or other light based show. Second grade will integrate science with social studies by extending our study of Jimmy Carter to his farming techniques, based on seasonal changes, and sunlight. We will survey plant needs for more or less sunlight, as well as seasonal planting, and companion crops based on sunlight requirements. As part of that sunlight requirement, some classes may explore how many plants per square foot may be planted based on crop type, for example 1 tomato plant fits in 1 square foot, while 32 radish plants fit in the same square foot of space. 
 
Using the Sun (and other things) to Tell Time
 

Telling Time without a Clock: Scandinavian Daymarks  http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/Daymarks/

 Ancient Timekeeping http://www.ancient.eu/Timekeeping/
 

A Brief History of Time Measurement https://nrich.maths.org/6070

 
Folk Tales
 

Solar Folklore (Many folk tales from all over the world)

 http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/

Why the sun and the moon live in the sky

African Folktale

http://www.worldoftales.com/African_folktales/African_Folktale_10.html 
 

The journey of the sun and the moon - Slavic Folktale

http://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/Slavic_fairy_tale_8.html
 
 
 

How the Sun was Rescued
A Siberian Tale

http://www.windows2universe.org/art_and_music/hsr.html
 
 
 
 
How to Do Shadow Puppets
 
Constructing a theater box for shadow puppetry
http://www.instructables.com/id/Basic-Shadow-Puppets/  (Instructable - "how to")
 
 Example Pictures of how to do shadow puppets with your hands and arms
 https://www.elitereaders.com/hand-shadow-puppets/
 
Whole webpage with videos, devoted to shadow puppetry with your hands
http://www.blifaloo.com/shadow-puppets/ 
 
 15 more examples of shadow puppetry with your hands
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/galleries/266-hand-shadow-puppetry
 
 Actual Stage Performance of "Hand Shadow" Raymond Crowe at Royal Variety Show
 

How To - Kenneth Wingard's DIY Shadow Puppet Theater - Home & Family

 
 

Constellation Poster

Aurasma App


Ziploc Seed Sprouting

Ziploc bag sprout chambers arranged in an array.
description of experiment and arrangement on wall in an array
sprout
sprout

Coin Sorter STEM Unit

coin sorters on the wall
Putting up their "Improved" gravity fed coin sorters.
Putting up their "Improved" gravity fed coin sorters.
Testing their "Improved" gravity fed coin sorters.
Testing their "Improved" gravity fed coin sorters.
More Improvements after Testing their "Improved" gravity fed coin sorters.
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