Tell a Story Day!
Today is a "C" day, so here is a special shout out to the students in my C day classes:
Ms Fitzpatrick 3rd grade, Ms Kolkebeck 4th grade,
Ms Buddemeyer 5th grade, Ms Floyd Kindergarten, Ms Sharp 1st grade, and Ms Johnson 2nd grade!
Now for a Fun Fact:
The Cartwheel Galaxy is located in the constellation Sculptor. It is approximately 496 million light years from Earth. It is a little larger than our Milky Way galaxy.
Here is a picture of the Cartwheel Galaxy. I took a photo while exploring space this weekend!
Ha ha!! Okay, I did not really explore space in a space suit, but it makes for a good story! I did get to take this "selfie" using the NASA Selfies app on my phone. Thanks to that photo, I did learn about the Cartwheel Galaxy AND about the various telescopes currently in space that work to show us these pictures: the Chandra, GALEX, Hubble and Spitzer space observatories. This one photo lead to so much information! I used the Constellation Guide website to find information about the Cartwheel Galaxy:
Fun Fact #2: A light year is the distance that light can travel in one year, or nearly 6 trillion miles.
Fun Fact #3: If you go to the Google home page today and click on the Google logo, you will find a cute bunny coding game. It is great to practice and play with coding right now!
Fun Fact #4: Today is National Tell a Story Day. Perfect day to check out the Stallion Story time on Flipgrid!
https://flipgrid.com/edwards5739
The user ID is 2020.
RADCAB
Evaluating information is vital when you do research. RADCAB is an acronym for information evaluation created by Karen M. Christensson, MS Library Media Education. Here is what RADCAB stands for:
Relevancy
Appropriateness
Detail
Currency
Authority
Bias
You should use all of these evaluators when you dive into investigating. We will look at each one of these evaluators this week and then use them to create Google presentations and/or Word presentations together in the days ahead. This has always been an exciting part of our class - seeing how you discover information and share it with the rest of us! We will keep it age appropriate for each grade level, no worries!
That is all for today! See you tomorrow.
I miss you!
