CCHS students preview solar eclipse
With the Great American Eclipse just a few days away, some Cathedral City High School students spent their school day learning about this celestial event.
With terms like “orbit” and “corona”- students got a crash course on solar eclipses.
Three teachers at Cathedral City High School are feeding the curiosity of these kids, Martha Hunter, a science teacher, has been preparing for months.
“Over the summer, I knew it was going to be happening and I thought it would be a unique opportunity for students to experience,” Hunter said.
Students made diagrams and watched videos of how eclipses work like learning that the corona is the visible light that surrounds the moon as it covers the sun.
For one freshman in Ms. Hunter’s class, the anticipation awaits.
“I think it will be pretty cool, people looking up at the sky. It’s getting darker and you just see the eclipse,” said Evan Bounds, Freshman at CCHS.
In one math class, students were calculating the speed of the lunar shadow. One student had brought up the subject to her math teacher, all to help her classmates understand their first significant eclipse.
“I think it’s going to be really cool and probably everyone’s going to gasp,” said Celia Guinan, a Junior at CCHS.
It’s that sense of wonder ms hunter hopes will allow students to appreciate such a rare event.
“My biggest thing is I really want them to appreciate the special time with it being August 21st,” Hunter said.
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