Derek Lecy, 5th grade at Bahia Vista, shared these two links about using drawing in science to help students better internalize their experiences and knowledge.
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Thanks Nate McDonald from White Hill for this video about a great project. "These robots are an inexpensive way to have students complete circuits to make an interactive robot. Using a AA battery, a hobby motor, wires, and a couple markers with a cup, students can make a ScribbleBot. I love this lesson because students can rapidly go through the engineering design cycle to get their ScribbleBot working and to change the way the robot draws." Have your students be part of an international event: Global Cardboard Challenge!
5th grade at Dixie had the students become birds and did an activity to help them see how different beaks pick up different food. The students collected the data and started to create bar graphs to compare the different beaks with the types of food they are made to eat. 3rd grade from Glenwood did the same beak lesson.
Coleman tests their first iterations of their nests. Bird nest videos from Michelle Giraud, 3rd grade, Sun Valley: "Below you will find 2 videos that support the bird nest lesson. I have shown these and additional ones to my class and they love them. At first, I struggled with when to show it. I decided to show it a few days before they had the chance to actually create their own. Seeing the videos made the idea of creating a nest more realistic and I think they had a better vision than if not seeing it." I attended a NGSS workshop that used the bird beak as a lesson that could encompass many of the concepts in the new standards. I have linked the lesson they used (Lawrence Hall of Science) and took some pictures. They used a variety of "beaks" and a wide variety of "food." They also had an interesting way to graph it at the end. Check out the pictures!
Thank you Tom Kiehfuss, 5th grade, San Pedro: "I have found this website from Sonoma County Water Agency very helpful in supporting the iTEAMS water theme this year. The students and I have done the drip sculpture activity and this week we will be building a solar water purifier and learning how to use our water testing kit. We will test and record salinity levels of water from the bay before we put it in our solar water purifier and then we will test the purified water once it’s gone through the purification process. We will also be using this data to share and compare with our science pen pals in Louisiana."
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Understand water seeping through porous rock and cracks carries dissolved minerals. As the water drips from the ceiling of a cave, some of it evaporates and leaves behind a mineral deposit in the form of a stalactite. Water that drips onto the floor of a cave also evaporates, and this mineral deposit forms a stalagmite. Stalagmites and stalactites grow very slowly; this activity allows students to witness model formations over the course of just a few day Challenge: Can you create stalactite and stalagmite formations in a much shorter time? Thanks Lindsay Hess, Wade Thomas: " ... they came and did an in-class presentation on stomp rockets. The kids loved it! (K-5th grade)" Modeled after our experiential camp learning environments, EDMO360’s In Class Programs (ICPs) help thousands of elementary and middle school teachers bring hands-on science, maker or technology programs to their classrooms. Each 45 minute or 1 hour hands-on presentation is designed by EDMO360, in partnership with top Bay Area museums, to elicit looks of awe and wonder so kids want to learn more. I know many teachers who are using these lessons to supplement their science. These units are geared fro 2-6 grade. Lindsay Hess, Wade Thomas, is among them and sent me the link. Many of you might have gotten the email at the beginning of the school year that offered them for free if you gave them 5 email addresses. It looks like they will be charging to use these next school year. Check them out to see if it would be worth your school and/or district to purchase. Mystery Science provides open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. Our online resource makes it easy for elementary school teachers to deliver an incredible science lesson without a science background. Rather than a textbook approach to science vocabulary, hands-on activities engage students with the mysteries of science and expose them to the joy of scientific inquiry at an early age. Lessons are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and support Common Core with the reading extensions. THE WEATHER WIZ SCHOOL The Weather Wiz weather prediction education site goal is to introduce teachers to the most successful school weather program in the United States and get the student involved in this fascinating science. The Program was designed by Jim Witt and honed via years of teaching and weather predictions.
Thanks for the resource Lindsay Hess, Wade Thomas, 3rd grade. |
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