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Digital Video Tour: Total Solar Eclipse

Community organization: Fred G. Dale Planetarium, Wayne State College

Choose from:

Viewing the eclipse, including safety instructions

Eclipse and human history

Structure of the sun and its zones

Solar weather such as sun spots and solar flares

1. Introduce yourself as a student from Embry-Riddle and say what your major is. DO NOT GIVE YOUR NAME.

2. Tell the audience that the tour will provide information on the total solar eclipse for the Wayne State College Fred G. Dale Planetarium.

3. Give some background information on the Planetarium (look up the history here: https://www.wsc.edu/info/20091/planetarium).

4. Describe in basic terms (with few details) a total solar eclipse.

a. Make sure to use resources obtained from NASA, research web sites (mostly located on university websites), or from articles published in original, peer-reviewed journals. However, you may also use information from this site: http://www.mreclipse.com/

b. All scientific and technical terms must be described to your audience using verbal analogy.

5. Tell the audience what day the total eclipse will be visible in North America and Nebraska.

6. Describe the geographic path of the total eclipse across North America and give the general times it will be visible in Nebraska.

7. Describe the topic from the list provided.

a. Apply what you describe about your topic to what is known about a total solar eclipse in an explicit or direct way.

i. Make sure to use resources obtained from NASA, research web sites (mostly located on university websites), or from articles published in original, peer-reviewed journals. However, you may also use information from this site: http://www.mreclipse.com/

ii. All scientific and technical terms must be described to your audience using verbal analogy.

8. Conclude your tour

a. Provide a very short summary.

b. Then relate the concepts you have covered to what a person may see on the ground in the path of the total solar eclipse.

c. End by encouraging your audience to view the eclipse and to visit the Fred G. Dale Planetarium.

9. Create a bibliography for your final image.

Rubric for Planetarium Digital Tours
Modified STEMSL tool for the ERAU service-learning project without reflections
	Understand	Apply	Analyze	Evaluate	Create	Pts Possible
Factual Knowledge	Give the path and date for the total solar eclipse.	Apply your factual knowledge of your topic to your desciption of the total solar eclipse.			Create a visual image of the relative positions of the earth, moon, and sun for the eclipse.	9
Score 0-3						0
Conceptual Knowledge	What is the biology of your beetle species, what is its body like	Use analogies to define and describe scientific terms.	Relate the concepts you have covered to what a person may see on the ground in the path of the total solar eclipse.	Used informative and relevant sources and cited them correctly		12
Score 0-3						0
Procedural Knowledge	Describe, step by step the process of the total solar eclipse.	Carry out the procedure of writing a script according to guidelines	Critique and analyze your rough draft of your tour. Ask yourself if you (or others you have listen to it) find it interesting, engaging, and informative.	Incorporate feedback from written script in preparing final version of text.	Create a tour that is easy to understand and informative.	15
Score 0-3						0
Peresentation	Readibility	Using technology to combine text, audio, graphics.		Selection of graphic, video, and sound files	Overall evaluation of the museum tour	12
Score 0-3						0
Total Score	0

0, Does not do activity;

1, does activity but does not meet learning objective (includes the least amount of information possible but does not go through register shift to explain it directly or by analogy),

2, meets learning objective (student provides details AND does go through a register shift to explain it directly or by analogy),

3, excels at leaning objective (includes multiple interesting bits of information AND meets the audience expectations by explaining the material well),