Gr3InternetWorkshop

=**Learning About the Solar System: Images from Space**= Grade 3 Internet Workshop at Fox Meadow Elementary School

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In this activity, the members of your group will work together in an Internet Workshop. You will work with a partner in groups of four to gather information on the Internet to solve your group's information problem. You will bring the information you gathered about your topic and your set of tips for Alexander back to the whole class were you will share and discuss what you learned with other groups. If you need to download the worksheet that goes with this activity, click here: [|Space Internet Workshop Worksheet.doc] =====

Images from [|Windows to the World: Solar System]

**Getting warmed up:** (All groups should try this activity first)
What is one advantage of using infrared radiation to look at the world around you? Click [|here] to explore for no more than 5 minutes. Then write your answer on your worksheet. = ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR CHALLENGE? =

Remember you will need to record your answers and your Internet reading strategy tips for Alexander on your worksheet.


 * Group 1. How can we learn about the stars other than looking at them with our “naked eye”? Explore [|Cosmic Colors]

Group 2. How and why do people on Earth talk to spacecraft? Explore [|Yelling Across the Solar System]

Group 3. How do satellites get up in space to gather information about the solar system ? Explore [|Shooting Cannonballs Into Orbit]

Group 4. How can we get so much information about space back to Earth? Explore [|Shrinking Information] **

Internet Reading Strategy Tips for Alexander
Pretend a new student, Alexander, has joined your class. He has never used the Internet before. He's not sure how to move around within a website to find information, especially when there are so many kinds of arrows and links to choose from. He also doesn't always trust the information he reads on the Internet.

A. What **navigational tips** would you give Alexander to help him find his way around the information at the website your group visited? What does he need to know in order to see, hear, and use the interactive parts of the website?

B. What **strategies** can you use to show Alexander that information at the NASA Space Place Website was created by space experts? How might you use the Internet to learn more about who created the information at the NASA Space Place Website?

**If you finish your list of strategy tips for Alexander...**
you may work with your group to see how many Solar System Trading Cards your group can earn in this [|quiz game]. You may even find some interesting information to add to your Alphabet Book about the Solar System.

Other informational websites about the Solar System:
 * [|KidCosmos]
 * [|Enchanted Learning Solar System]
 * [|Windows to the Universe: Our Solar System]
 * [|NASA Space Place]