We headed north to Plainfield to work with 3 – 1st grade classes at Brentfield Elementary. We did a Q&A about the eclipse so we could all share things we knew about the eclipse. A basketball and tennis ball are good (proportional) models for the Earth & moon. For this size, they would be about 24 feet apart (the sun would be a 9 story building and almost 2 miles away).
Then we made earth-moon necklaces. We had choices, wooden beads 25 mm & 6 mm, or flat discs that I laser cut and laser engraved continents. Students colored in oceans and land. We had a short book about the eclipse. Finally we made corona chalk art.
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