Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Modeling Your World during the first session of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the textthat remains is in the student's own words.

Today we did stuff with the earth orbiting 
the sun we also did a game where you have 
to figure out what name is on your back 
I had fun.


Greg

Today, we worked on looking at the galaxy
 and how gravity related to the movements 
 of the planets, specifically Earth & Sun.  
 We also used a rope to symbolize that in 
 the middle of the rope there was the sun 
 and on the outside was the earth and as 
 it moved it showed how the earth orbited 
 around the sun. It was fun and very 
 exciting!


Lauren

I thought that the galaxy activity 
was a really neat activity.


Ryan

I learned how to model a galaxy.
  

Jon

It was interesting, but sort of confusing. 
I thought it was fun. It was harder than 
stuff you do at school.


Ellen


Today was the first day of this camp for 
me.  I think it was fun, but it was 
also challenging.  We determined astronomical
units to make the "Earth" rotate around the 
"Sun" at an appropriate rate.  It was 
confusing but I caught on.  Overall I had 
a good day.


Will


I learned how the earth rotated around
the sun.  I played a game with a rope
and making sure the middle of the rope
did not move.  The middle of the rope 
was suppose to be the sun.  We had 
outside people to run and then our 
teacher told us what would have really 
happend if it had of worked better.


Tasha


The camp was really good today.  I 
especially enjoyed playing around with 
GalaxSee, and actually programming in 
the earth's statistics so that it worked. 
Also during the day,I learned the 
differences between the sciences that 
we will be working with, and we had a 
hands-on satellite orbiting activity. 
I would have liked to play around with 
GalaxSee some more.


Jeff


It was fantastic Modeling on GalaxSee. 
I Know I`ll have a great time tomorrow. 
I think today was great. It was as fun 
as going to the coolest amusement park 
ever.


James



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