17Feb2024
This week we looked into 2 of the outer planets, Jupiter and Saturn. When I first started teaching this material, Jupiter had 66 moons. Now it's reported to have over 92 moons. Galileo named 4 of the largest, so we decided we needed to name our moon. I've gotten many good suggestions-next week we'll vote.
One of our future activities will be to research an astronomer of our choice. Since all the kids were somewhat familiar with Galileo, I gave them a more in -depth run down of his life, including his extensive astronomy work (without a telescope, using math) and his house arrest for heresy.
Next up-we'll finish with the outer planets, Uranus & Neptune plus other minor members wk10.
Tuesday quiz20 due Also fruit solar system-yum!