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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom  Oops. Scarlett had been too busy organizing her fun quills and parchment (class was always more FUN when you had colored ink and parchment to take notes with!) that everyone had grouped up around her. Great. Just great. This was why she hated partner activities! She was slow, and everyone around her was just too darn fast. She bit her lip and raised her hand. "Erm, Professor Kennedy, sorry, I...don't have a partner either," she said quietly. And now she had to ask the professor for help. HER. A sixth year. Asking for help. How embarrassing.
Erm, right, back to the question. THAT she could at least hop in on at any time. Except...she couldn't remember anything about nebulas from her OWL studies. When it came to Astronomy (and some other classes, like Runes, YUCK) it was like all the information had just fallen right out of her head. She raised her hand anyways, though, because she could still contribute SOMETHING.
"Nebulas are SOOOOOOOO pretty! They're like paintings, and the makeup palettes inspired by them are AMAZING as well," she added. Not that Kennedy probably cared about that, but it was important to HER. Kalen smiled at Miss Reynolds as she spoke, “Indeed they are very beautiful.” He commented, he was about to tell her who she could pair up with but it seemed to sort itself out. So he didn’t mention that bit. Quote:
Originally Posted by siriusblackliveson Patrick heard the girl pipe up about paintings and makeup something or others, he squinted as if that would help him understand what she meant by that any better. He thought about all of the things he had learned in this thing they did in school called star lab. They sat in a air filled igloo type thing in class and looked at stars... what had that lady said about nebulas?
He sat and thought for another second, "Those are what look like cloudy star balls that are actually other galaxies of stars, right?" he couldn't believe he had remembered that, really his favorite part was eating the mint and seeing the sparks from breaking the mint. Kalen tried not to laugh as Mr.Dooley spoke. “Well you are mostly on the right track.” Sorta, ish? He got the Cloud part right at least? Quote:
Originally Posted by lazykitty "Ronan." He replied to the boy's introduction. What? If Patrick couldn't muster up the energy for a proper introduction, why should he?
Wait, what was that answer? Cloudy star balls? Galaxies of stars? Made him blush at that. Little dude knew these answers reflected on both of them, right? Since Professor Kennedy had told them to work together the rest of the class. "You do realize that the 'clouds' can be any shape and that galaxies are made up of more than just stars, right?" Professor Kennedy already had a pretty low opinion of him, judging by the rehearsal incident, he didn't need it to sink any lower.
Man, if he'd just waited a few minutes, he could've worked with someone who wouldn't say stupid stuff like that. Kalen couldn’t help but smile as he saw Mr. Carter whisper to his partner, yeah perhaps that answer hadn’t been the best, but he had answered so full points to the team. Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo She'd already figured they'd be working together for the remainder of the lesson and the fact they'd be allowed to stay as three was the real steal here. Only thing was....they'd need to answer questions as a group? Even the simple ones? Jessa spared a glance between Cameron and Julie, wondering if they'd need a whole huddle just to reply to this.
So far, it didn't seem like anyone else was so...she was just....gonna go ahead and give an answer? The group work aspect she got, just not the idea of group answers.
What if they didn't agree? Did they have to take a vote and do a whole democratic thing? She didn't think she'd be able to agree on an idea simply because she was overruled. Granted, her friends were smart and they'd likely come to about the same answers but what about those questions that might not have been textbook answer based and relied more on opinion?
One thing at a time, Jessa.
"They're known as the place where stars are 'born'." Of course, they weren't really born, they were just stars, but you got the idea. Kalen nodded as Jessa spoke. “Some of them are indeed known as that.” He said with a nod. Thank for speaking up for your team.Miss Cambridge. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie
Smoothing a crease in their parchment just at the librarian moved things along, the Hufflepuff began transcribing the question being asked since...that was what they were supposed to do, right? "Nebulae," he ended up whispering to Natalie. "I like that plural form better and is sounds more official-ish." As long as she didn't mine...which he could cross out the word on their parchment since he had already written "What do you know about nebulae?" on it.
"They are nurseries for stars," Derf began. "And...like loads of nurseries, they have unique designs and colors." Not that he could see them properly but he had heard Abey describe them loads of times. "Loads of them look like animals...like...there is the Horsehead nebula, Owl nebula, Red Spider nebula, Crab nebula, Manatee nebula, Tarantula nebula, Eagle nebula...WHERE those Pillars of Creation are found and stuff..."
Eagle. Eagle nebula. Pillars of Creation. Red blood eagle.
................................
Derf's eyes became a bit unfocused as the cogs began spinning. They were ALL in danger.
Kalen nodded as Mr. Ashburry-Hawthorne spoke up, “Indeed they do, and yes several of them look like animals.” Sort of at least. But yes, mostly. He noticed the boys demeanor and he raised an eyebrow but stayed silent for the moment. The Hufflepuff had been through a lot back a few days ago in the Room of Requirement, Kalen was surprised he was in class, if he was honest. At least there were no angry eyes glaring in his direction so far, so.. Yay? Quote:
Originally Posted by Star-Lord Oh, nebulas!
That was the name of the teddy bear Steph's dad had gifted her over Christmas. And considering the bear was many different colors, the redhead figured it was a perfect name. Not like rainbow or something similar to that. It was a common name for colorful stuffed animals and Steph knew that was boring. But anyway.
"Nebulas are huge clouds of dust and gas that form in space. Their color depends on the reflected light that's hitting them. It's usually from the heat from nearby stars or their light," Steph ended it with a small nod. OMG. Will they be making their own nebulas? Or looking for them? Or becoming the nebulas?
SO MANY RACING QUESTIONS. Kalen nodded as the Hufflepuff spoke. “Indeed they are Miss Fanelli.” He smiled at her words, she seemed excited, which was nice. He always appreciated enthusiasm. Quote:
Originally Posted by sarahlooo
Natalie's chest was constricting and her heartstrings were tugging in a painful way too, but it was for different reasons than his. There was something seriously wrong with Derf and she just SOMEHOW wanted to make him better but she had no idea HOW. She didn't know what he went through in the Room of Requirement and, therefore, had no idea how to console him. And she felt awful because of it.
Still clinging to his arm, Natalie listened to the Professor begin class. Nebulas. Right.
Oh. Nebulae. Well, at least Derf was Derf enough to correct the teacher. That was at least mildly reassuring. And he was answering the question, too. As he was doing so, Natalie took the quill and wrote down a few key words to what he was saying.
Nurseries for stars... Horsehead, owl, red spider, crab, eagle... Pillars of Creation...
Drawing a line between the Pillars of Creation and the eagle nebula, she heard Derf kind of trail off. Natalie peered up at him... and noticed the dazed look on his face. Dread settled into her and her stomach twisted. That wasn't a good look. Was Derf getting possessed now too? WAS HE GONNA GET CURSED???
"Derf?" she whispered, big blue eyes worried, eyebrows knotted in concern.
And no, she wasn't paying attention to the lesson anymore. Kalen noticed that Miss McKinley wasn’t paying attention and was instead looking at Derf. Kalen sighed softly and yet didn’t call her out just yet. He was watching those two though. Quote:
Originally Posted by NifflerFan A Hufflepuff girl in her year (Daisy) wanted to be partners, yesss! Emmeline beamed at the other girl and chirped, "Sure! I'm Emmeline, what's your name?" She felt kind of bad that she didn't know, 'cause she tried to remember at least all the other second years' names from other Houses and stuff, but there was no point in pretending she knew the girl's name or anything silly like that. The twelve-year-old plopped back down in her seat and scribbled her name at the top of the group parchment she'd already retrieved before sliding it across the desks to the Hufflepuff girl.
Sadly, there wasn't much time to talk to her new partner or anything 'cause Professor Kennedy started talking again pretty quickly. And and, he told Eddie to join her (now) trio! The Gryffindor shot the slightly older Slytherin boy a huuuge grin; her duel against him last term had seemed super awful and icky at the time, but as time passed, she had started thinking that it was actually kind of funny and stuff. As her opinion of the duel had improved, so had her opinion of Eddie. Plus, he'd brought flowers for Miss Olivia when she was in hospital last term without even knowing her and stuff! So, to say that Emmeline was pretty happy to work with him and the Hufflepuff girl would be a bit of an understatement.
Her grin fell off her face faster than a Firebolt when Professor Kennedy asked his question, though. She had NO idea what a nebulum-thing was -- was that even its name? -- and so her answer was bound to be really lame. She was impressed by Derf's answer (and the rest of her classmates' answers too, of course) 'cause he knew LOADS of stuff about them, apparently. Emmeline scrunched her forehead into wrinkles as she struggled to remember anything from the skimming of her Astronomy textbook that she did any time Professor Kennedy assigned them homework (which was wayy too often, by the way). She was pretty sure that she remembered a biiig, beautiful thing in the sky with loads of bright lights from the book that she thought was a nebula. She raised her hand tentatively and muttered super quietly, "They're realllly pretty. And they have loads of different colors and stuff." Yup, that was about as bad as she'd thought it would be. Maybe she'd get lucky and nobody would hear her dumb answer... Kalen nodded as Miss Sparkes spoke. “Indeed they are very pretty.” He said with a smile as his attention was taken by Miss Swann. Quote:
Originally Posted by Ginevra Daisy smiled as she joined Emmeline. "My name's Daisy. Thank for being my partner." When Emmeline passed Daisy the piece of parchment, Daisy wrote her name at the top of the parchment just underneath Emmeline's. To have another person join them was okay with Daisy. She knew Edward from a recent DADA lesson and gave him a small smile. She was unsure if he'd return it though.
Daisy could see that her fellow Hufflepuff was behaving rather oddly to notice Professor Kennedy's question. Her hand shot up instantly. "Professor! I think there's something the matter with Derf!" Daisy said rather frantically. Meh, he had been content to leave the situation alone, but now he actually had to face it. “Miss Swann, Thank you for letting me know, but I would appreciate it if you would pay attention to the lesson and the question I asked of all of you.”
He said as he looked at her and then at Mr. Ashburry-Hawthorne and Miss McKinley. “If you need to go to the Healers wing, Mr. Ashburry-Hawthorne you may go and Miss McKinley may escort you. If not I would appreciate if you paid attention, and Miss McKinley, I would like an answer to my question please.” Normally he would have let them get away with one answer per team, but since they weren’t paying attention, he wanted an answer from them as well. Quote:
Originally Posted by 2111jen Nebulas?? Jonas blinked.
"Swirly stars in the sky," he kind of threw up. "And they're really really really far away." “Thank you for your input to our discussion.” Kalen said kindly, he was right about them being far away at least? Quote:
Originally Posted by Lislchen Cameron only looked away from Jessa's bandage when he heard somebody else approach them. And not just anyone either. Julie. Ignoring the fact that the professor had told them to PAIR up, he simply smiled at her and gave her a nod. "Of course." Julie was definitely among the handful of people he didn't mind cutting in.
Plus, she seemed equally as concerned about Jessa as he was.
Careful, yeah.
"....okay." He gave Jessa's hand a squeeze and Julie a brief glance when he was sure Jessa wasn't looking. He trusted the Ravenclaw's judgement but he also knew that some risks were unpredictable when it came to her experiments. There was nothing for him to do NOW though so he let it go. He made a mental note to join her more often for the feeding of the birds. Just in case.
Also playing with Jessa's fingers with one hand he used the other to add Julie's name to their piece of parchment. A team name? He was okay with that, naturally, but gave them both an expectant look, not having any ideas himself. As for the first question of the day...
...Jessa answered that for their group. This was what the professor wanted, yeah? Group answers. Cameron trusted both the girls' intelligence and ability to give the correct - or what they believed to be the correct - answer so in his opinion there was no need for any sort of in-group discussion. He gave Jessa a quick smile before looking back down at their parchment.
Was he supposed to write down the answer too? Kalen noted Mr.Tamesis silence, but then Jessa had already answered, and since the boy seemed to be paying attention, Kalen merely nodded and moved on. Quote:
Originally Posted by Devina Wellheart Miranda was not at all happy to have seen her mother in the classroom as she had entered earlier... Not one bit.. And now she was sans a partner for the activity.. So as usual she was looking around for anyone without like herself...
This was common and regular practice for the teen in the majority of her lessons...
So near the back and away from the main group she sat quietly taking in all that surrounded her.. And hopefully, by the grace of Merlin be left alone.. She sat writing down any notes and any important information that was being given. Well at least Miss Blaze was taking notes. Though she didn’t seem to have a partner yet. Quote:
Originally Posted by Charely Potter
While Kirk decidedly remained on the quiet side during the lesson, it wasn't out of lack of interest or shyness. He quite liked the sound of discussion going on. Also contributing to the fact that the classroom was comfortably warm. When it came time to pairing up, he merely glanced around the others. His usual partner-in-crime was under the weather and couldn't quite make it today.
But Kirk did notice at least one still not partnered up, "I'll partner with you, Scarlett." He offered to her. It appeared she wasn't the only lone one though as another girl was nearby. "Hey Miranda, want to be partners?" They could be a trio unless they had another offer already. The following question did light up Kirk's light blue eyes. "Nebulas were originally named as any diffused galaxies or objects related to the subject." That was a start.
But here came Mr. Forsfelle to swoop in and save the day for Miss Reynolds and Miss Blaze. He gave the boy a nod and smiled at his answer. “Indeed they were.” He said. Quote:
Originally Posted by RachieRu Ooh. Sky wanted to partner with her. Yay! She'd noticed that Sky often went with Viv, so it made her happy that she wanted to be with her this time. Yay! Although she did feel slightly bad for Viv. But they were all besties, so she was sure it would be okay. "Hi Sky" She beamed at her bestie. She hoped that it would be an interesting lesson. She loved astronomy, so she just hoped it would be interesting. She didn't like boring lesson. She took the parchment from Sky, and wrote her name next to Sky's. Perfect.
Ooh. And Viv could be their partner too? That great. "Come sit with us Viv!" The blonde girl beamed, moving over a little so they could all fit on the desk. This would be great, now someone wouldn't be left out, and they could all be happy. But she needed to ask the question too. Smiling, she thought about the question before raising a head. "It's a cloud of dust and gas in Space" Pretty simple really. A simple answer, Kalen appreciated that. “Indeed Miss Paton, Thank you for your answer.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga Whelp that worked out well. Eddie looked around the room grudgingly that no one picked him before the professor said something. They'd get theirs for that one. He got up and moved to the two girls the professor told him to sit with. The puff and the lion. Sitting down he gave them both a small smile, "Thank you for letting me join you." Not that they really had any choice in the matter, but he would be polite.
As for the question, it seemed his partner already knew an answer and spoke for them which was fine by him, because he wasn't one to really talk in class anyway. So instead of talking Edward sat quietly and looked at the students that were talking. He sat straight up for once and fully showed he was paying attention.
[/COLOR] Kalen noticed that Mr.Blaze seemed to be paying attention and he gave him a nod, since his partner had already answered for the team.
He noticed Derfael seeming to come back to himself a bit. Okayyy.. Could we pay attention now please? Kalen looked at the class and nodded after they had stopped giving their answers. “There were many good answers, thank you all for telling me what you knew about Nebulae.” He said with a smile as he moved to stand in front of his desk.
“Nebula, is Latin for the word cloud or fog. And Nebula are interstellar clouds of dust and gases, such as hydrogen and helium and it contains other ionized gases as well. They are often very large, several million light years across and they can be nurseries for new stars.” He said with a smile. “They are very beautiful, have many pretty colors and a few can be seen with the naked eye. The Orion Nebula for example can be seen as you look up to the constellation and notice that one of the stars in Orion’s sword looks fuzzy. That is the Orion Nebula.” He explained as he leaned back on his desk.
“Now way back when, Astronomers used to call any cloudy object they saw in the sky a Nebula, many galaxies were originally called a Nebula, Of course since then Scientists have narrowed down what Nebulae are. ” He paused for a moment, knowing he was hitting them with a lot of information and he still had several things to tell them.
“Now, there are many types of Nebulae, categories if you will. And some types have subcategories, but I’ll try to simplify it for you and give you the terms at least, as well as a simple explanation.”
Kalen moved to the board and started to write.
“We have H II regions, pronounced H 2, these are mostly Hydrogen based and are active star making regions.
Emission Nebulae, are made of ionized gasses and usually have a Star nearby, many of them appear red.
Dark Nebulae, which are clouds of dust so dense that they hide the light behind them.
Reflection Nebula which reflects the light of stars around them instead of creating their own.
Planetary, which have nothing to do with planets actually and are shells of gas that are emitted when stars die.
And finally,
Supernova remnants, which are created when a star dies in a massive explosion known as a supernova.”
Whew.. and now all what he had just said was written on the board for them to see and take notes if they wished.
“Now I know I just hit you all with a lot of information and there are a few more type of Nebula and some of the ones I mentioned are subtypes of others, but for this class, these are the ones I will be focusing on. If you want to know more, your textbook has a wealth of knowledge.”
Kalen moved back around to his desk and with a wave of his hand, the black cloths came off the desks that were around the room and revealed eight stations with moving pictures of what looked like a Nebula on each station. He was thankful he had found them.
“Now in your groups, I want you to go to at least four of the stations and see if you can figure out the name of the Nebula, if it is a Nebula, and what type of Nebula it is. Discuss with your groups what you think each Nebula is and write it down on your parchment.”
Kalen settled back on his desk. “Everyone up, and off to the stations. If you have any questions just let me know. I’ll be calling out to switch Stations in a little bit.” OOC: Hey all! I know that was a lot of information! Okay we are onto the main activity! Which is just going to a Station in your group, naming the Nebula and saying what kind of Nebula is it. I have provided the names of the Nebulas in the spoiler for your OOC information, IC it’s just a picture. We will be moving on with the rest of the lesson in about 96 hours or so, but I’ll be posting about once a day telling them to switch stations if they haven’t already. Please visit at least TWO stations! Thanks! If you have any questions please let me know. |