All of the third grade classes participated in a month long Solar System UBD research project. At the beginning stages, each student was put into a specific planet group. Using websites and books, each planet group researched information about their planet and posted their notes into Googledocs.
Afterwards, each planet group chose 2-3 Solar Award Categories that they felt their planet could win. The Solar Award Categories were:
- Strangest Atmosphere
- Wildest Temperature/Weather
- Best Name
- Most Earth-like Planet
- Most Interesting Moons
- Scariest Planet
- Most Beautiful Planet
- Most Unique Planet
Once the categories were chosen, each planet group had to write a persuasive paragraph that proved why their planet should win that specific category award. All paragraphs were submitted to an award selection committtee.
Together with the entire third grade, students were divided into specific selection committees that gathered in the Commons. (Ex.: The Strangest Atmosphere Committee). Each committee was responsible for reading the persuasive paragraphs and narrowing down each category to the top three planets that they felt deserved to win that specific category based off of the evidence that was given to them.
Back in the classroom, the top three persuasive speeches for each category were read aloud. After the speeches were read, the students voted online into a program called Survey Monkey for the planet they believe deserved to win. They also had to provide a reason for why they felt the planet should win the specific category. All of the third grade votes were tallied.
For the last part of the project, the students met back in the LMC for the Solars Award Ceremony where the winners were revealed. Please enjoy the pics below of our Space UBD project and Solars Award Ceremony.
Walking down the red carpet at the Solars Award Ceremony with the paparazzi shooting photos.
Mr. McHugh as the Solars Award announcer
The winners of the Solar Awards were...............
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