STORIES IN THE STARS

Spring 2017

3rd Grade: Keely McGreevy, Samantha Lee

STEAM: Tera Newton

Essential Question:  How have the constellations influenced storytelling in different cultures?

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Students developed their narrative voice through the study of mentor texts from folktales and cultural stories.  Students prepared audio recordings of their inspired constellation folktales in preparation for an immersive experience for listeners within an inflatable planetarium.

Skills: Problem-solving, Narrative written and oral presentation, engineering design, elapsed time, patterns, STEM and society, geometry, people long ago and today, earth sciences