This morning we had eclipse stations. There were three stations that helped us learn and prepare for the eclipse. At one station, the kids decorated paper plates to use with their eclipse glasses. At the second station, the students made a hole punch design to be able to see the different shadows made by the eclipse (unfortunately this did not work out as we were expecting). They had a fun eclipse snack also! The students assimilated an eclipse by using a Vanilla Wafer (sun) and an Oreo (moon). They moved the "moon" in front of the "sun" to represent totality and continued to move it across to show the progression of the eclipse.
We started to make a list of what we learned - we will continue to add to it tomorrow! Mrs. Eskridge came in and talked with us a little about what will happen during the eclipse.
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| Our list before Mrs. Eskridge came. |
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| Mrs. Eskridge talking to us about the eclipse. |
We spent approximately and hour and half this afternoon outside. We experienced the beginning of the eclipse through totality during this time. Throughout the day, we kept track of the time, temperature and what the sun looked like through our solar eclipse glasses. We discovered that the temperature really did go down during the eclipse! It was 89 degrees before the eclipse stared and during totality it was 80 degrees!
It was definitely a fun and exciting day! You can check out pictures here.
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