| Event ID: | 84578 |
| Contact Name: | Ivana Domjan |
| Contact Email: | idomjan13@gmail.com |
| Contact Phone: | 385915470093 |
| Organization: | Primary school Gorjani |
| Event Web Site: | http://www. |
| Dates: | 4th October 2024 to 10th October 2024 |
| Physical Event: | Yes |
| Type: | Public |
| Start/End Type: | Both Starts and Ends During WSW |
| Country: | Croatia |
| State/Province: | Slavonia |
| City: | Gorjani |
| Address: | Bolokan 20 |
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| Event Name: | Learning about the Solar system |
| Event Description: | We will have different activities: memory games (matching pairs) with pictures of constellations, putting together puzzles with pictures of the Universe on the website puzzlegarage.com, watching the movie Mars Attacks and, with a conversation, come up with how each of the students imagines aliens, make posters. We will make models of the planets of the solar system out of cardboard that the students will hold and imitate the movement around the Sun on the school playground. |
| Promotional Image: | No Image. |
| Report on the Results: | The celebration of World Space Week (October 4 - October 10) at our school was diverse and colorful. Students from fifth to eighth grade took part in various activities and projects with teachers Daria Bjelica, Danijela Matijaković and Ivana Domjan. Through education, conversation and presentations, the students and science teacher Daria learned the principle of the expansion of the universe by drawing points on a balloon and then inflating it, they discovered that the distance between the points is increasing and that the Universe is expanding in this way. They also studied the changes of the moon, and the order of the planets in the solar system. They showed all this with posters (Pictures 1 – 8). At the workshops with math teacher Ivana Domjan, we watched the movie Mars Attacks (1996) (Pictures 9-13), discussed and drew what aliens might look like (pictures 14-15), played puzzles online on the website www.puzzlegarage.com with pictures of space where each student had to say what his picture depicted (planet, galaxy, astronaut, space station, probe, etc.) (Figures 16 – 32). We played the Memory game with pictures of the constellations where the students had to connect the arrangement of the stars with the name of the constellation (Figures 81-83). We watched and commented on the documentary film Space with seventh grade students (pictures 33 - 42). Eighth grade students connected the learning of powers of base 10 positive and negative exponents with the current material in mathematics, calculating the diameter of the planets of our solar system, their mass and distance from the Sun, and connecting these huge sizes with the "miniature" size of atoms, the mass of protons, neutrons and electrons. We created a panel from their research (Figures 43-49). The biggest challenges were the project of making a model of the planets of the solar system out of cardboard, the size of the planets and their depiction, and the attempt to represent their trajectories and speed of movement around the Sun. With the cooperation of physical education teacher Danijela Matijaković and math teacher Ivana Domjan, we studied the diameters of the planets, their distance from the Sun (trajectory), and the speed of motion around the Sun, which we demonstrated on the school playground in front of other students and teachers (pictures and video 50 - 80). Through various research, conversations, exchange of opinions, cutting, coloring and calculations, we all had a lot of fun, laughed and learned a lot! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qb4h2fzdU7WA6WQ4UvRjItvh8jmnPVRk?usp=drive_link |
| Attendance: | 30 |
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