Elizabeth TS#3

Monday, September 7th

        For this tutoring session, I met up with my child tutee, PJ, at his home and we read a story from his fourth grade textbook called "Why Does the Moon Change Shape?". At the beginning of this lesson, I spoke with PJ about the Moon and asked if he had noticed its different shapes. He had but did not know why it happened. Before beginning the story I found a Google image of the phases of the Moon and went over the different form it can take throughout the month. I had PJ begin reading the text and would pause at the end of each page to go over the topics he had read about. After reading a page how the Moon revolves around the Earth, I showed him a YouTube video visually demonstrating this process. This seemed better to ground the information for PJ, as he began asking many questions on how the Moon moved and its relationship with the Earth. After continuing to read the passage, PJ read about the Sun and its role in the Moon cycles. I showed him another video on this topic and we discussed how the Sun is at the center of our solar system and its extremely hot temperatures. PJ seemed very fascinated by the topic and the visual images helped him to grasp the subject and formulate more questions on what he had learned. After reading, I drew out how the Sun shines on the Earth and Moon. Using his world map and globe, we spoke about how sunlight reaches different parts of the Earth, such as Florida vs Korea.