Today – Friday 20th
March – was the day that we had the opportunity to see a once in a life time
event: the chance to witness a solar eclipse! Despite the fact that we couldn’t
see the totality of the eclipse (we had special safety glasses – remember NEVER
look directly at the sun without the correct equipment!), it was still an
amazing opportunity to see the beautiful celestial mechanics, and complete some
great science work!
The first thing
that some of the Year 6 pupils did was to go outside whilst the event was
happening and record observations about the temperature, light intensity, cloud
cover and unusual occurrences happening before, during & after the eclipse.
We repeated the result gathering across the year group to improve the accuracy
of the data and then we worked out the average. Crucially, we also made sure
that observations took place in the same position to make the investigation as
fair as possible!
The next activity was
our English and Science cross curricular work. Mr Gale sent a (pretend) ‘angry’
letter to Year 6 to ask us why we had wasted time watching the eclipse when we
should have been practising for our SATS instead! We responded with a
persuasive letter, convincing Mr Gale that our solar eclipse learning had enhanced
our knowledge and that it was a fantastically worthwhile event to witness!
Additionally, we read factual texts to improve our understanding of solar eclipses
(which were really interesting). Finally we watched lots of great information videos
which were very entertaining yet had an outstanding amount of facts for us to
learn!
To sum up: this was
a remarkable day, which I’m sure we will never forget – particularly as the
next picturesque, total eclipse to hit the UK will be in 2090! Also, I’m sure a
lot of the knowledge now present in our minds will help us in future lessons!
Thanks for reading!!
Amy.
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