By fifth grade, students demonstrate knowledge of the solar system by naming the planets that revolve around the sun. Tomake a model of the solar system, they use different-size round objects for the planets and they create a ring for Saturn and multiple moons as well. Fifth-graders can cr...
The school normally sends its summer school students to the planetarium for a visit and this has created a strong tradition that is evident in the questions that get asked by the fifth graders during their visit. Many of the students were asking upper level thinking questions that may have ...