Raven stacks twelve weeks of Sky Log pages on the hallway floor beside the model. "Our report. Every week has evidence."
Rocket flips to week 1. "Where the Sun set. Then the Moon log, which we still keep."
"What do you notice about the order?" Raven asks. "Sky first, then the solar system, then rocks and time, then this."
Nova hovers over the stack. "A report gathers evidence and says what it shows," she says. "One section per week."
"And a conclusion," Rocket says. "Models let us study things too big or too old to see."
Raven nods. "That is the whole course in one sentence." Nova hums. "Write it down."
The standards say time, space and energy phenomena can be observed at various scales using models. Models let us study systems too large or too small.
Your Sky Log is twelve weeks of models and observations. The report puts each one next to what it showed.
Every section follows the same pattern: what you did, what you observed or measured, and what it means.
Keep only numbers you measured or read from a named source, such as NASA or the United States Geological Survey.
| Section | Week and model | Sky Log evidence to include |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day and Night: the lamp and spinning ball | where the Sun set from the Sky Deck, and what the model showed |
| 2 | Moon Phases: head as Earth, ball as Moon | your Moon log sketches, all course long |
| 3 | Eclipses: shadows in the lamp model | which shadow made which eclipse, modeled indoors |
| 4 | Seasons: flashlight straight and slanted on grid paper | squares lit, straight versus slanted |
| 5 | Gravity Holds the System: marble in a bowl | how the marble's path changed |
| 6 | A Disk of Dust and Gas: the stirred disk model | the direction everything spun |
| 7 | How Far: the hallway walk | steps to each planet |
| 8 | How Big: paper circles to scale | the circle sizes you cut |
| 9 | Rocks Change: the rock sort and card loop | your sorting table and rock cycle model |
| 10 | Reading the Layers: the sediment bottle | layer thicknesses and the order they landed |
| 11 | Earth's Long Story: the paper roll | sheets back for each milestone and the human sliver |
| 12 | Design a Solar System Model | criteria, constraints, both test tables and the improvements |
| Week review | True or false? |
|---|---|
| Criteria say what a design must do; constraints are its limits. | ? |
| One hallway scale can show both planet distances and planet sizes truly. | ? |
| Testing by measuring showed which markers to improve. | ? |
| Models let us study systems too large or too small to see directly. | ? |
| The report should include numbers you made up to fill gaps. | ? |
Twelve weeks gathered into one report. Tomorrow is Sky Night: the family tour of your model, and one more Moon check.