So after establishing consensus on why we experience daytime and nighttime, we agreed that we should go back to the DQB to see related questions. There was a question that stood out for us, and that was:
Why don't we see other stars besides the sun in the daytime?
We developed some initial models and agreed that we didn't really know.
Why don't we see other stars besides the sun in the daytime?
We developed some initial models and agreed that we didn't really know.
So we turned to developing a physical model to helping us better understand this phenomenon, using our Chromebooks' cameras to capture first-hand evidence of what this would look like from the Earth's perspective.
Each group was required to take as many pictures as they could with their physical models to explain why we don't see stars in the daytime. They uploaded those pictures into a shared Google Slides presentation, and explained what was going on in each picture. Some groups even took videos! Check out their work (each group's presentation is linked in the Google Drawing below).
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A snippet of the students' slides presentations (in case you didn't have time to look through all of them!)
And after evaluating everyone's physical models and evidence, we sat as a class to make a similarities/differences chart to see how our models compared regarding the phenomenon. What a great way to figure this all out 5th grade!