In the Earth Patterns STEM class, we ended our three week session by using sundials outside and also seeing just how huge our Solar System is let alone the universe. It truly is amazing! The students also completed the CER which is a paragraph about their learning. First they made a claim, which had to do with the Earth patterns found in shadows. Then they had to share their evidence which was the data collected on shadow lengths throughout the day and their observations of the sundial. Finally they had reason or explain the "therefore" of this which is that the Earth rotates.  I was able to send home most of the students' house maps with their compass rose so they could determine where North, West, and South were in their house too.