Category: 6th

Teaching Channel

10/20/2016

" I use Teaching Channel all the time. It has been a huge influence on my practice as has some of the videos NSTA puts out. I watch all the science NGSS stuff, assessing, ESL engagement, etc." Sue Holland, 7th grade, Miller Creek Middle School

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Examples of what Sue uses from the teaching channel:

Formative Assessment

Engineering and Design

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Human Protractor

10/19/2016

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5th graders at Dixie working on angles. Check out Liz Naughton's (Dixie School) comment below.

Lesson from the Exploratorium

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Website with NGSS classroom resources

10/13/2016

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This site has many great resources for teachers, including engineering and STEM projects that relate to the new standards. They even are color coded like the standards! (Don't know about the coloring coding? Check out the link below!)

Classroom Resources on the NSTA website

The Color Coding of the NGSS

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Walking Functions

9/19/2016

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5th graders at Glenwood School made walking graphs. Anyone else try it?

Teacher Write up

Student Handouts

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Spaghetti Tower Challenge

9/14/2016

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All the 4th and 5th grade students and teachers at Coleman Elementary school got together to participate in the marshmallow spaghetti challenge. The students worked in teams to build the highest structure possible with a marshmallow on top.

Powerpoint introduction

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STEM/ NGSS lessons

5/16/2016

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From Sarah Horky at Hidden Valley School.

"I have used (this website) to help implement STEM activities as well as support the science/math we are teaching in the classroom. The site has many lessons and interactive activities suited towards upper elementary to high school."

Wonder Ground

National Geographic

"There have been lessons relating to water and to transportation. The Water lesson asked "Will there be enough fresh water?" I used this lesson to introduce fresh water on Earth. It was a great discussion after our science unit on the watershed. We discussed fresh water availability and then related it to the collection of rain water from our water gauge at our school site."

Will there be enough freshwater? Lesson

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Bridge Resources

5/16/2016

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Jessica Lizarraga has been having her 7th grade students construct bridges out of toothpicks. The following are resources she has used with her project.

Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Bridge Research (pre project) form

Golden Gate Bridge Video

Research website for students

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Watershed Education Resources

4/19/2016

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Marin Municipal Water District has educational resources, maps, and provide school assemblies. Robert Atkinson, 4th grade teacher at Brookside states, "We had an assembly from their school education program which was really great. They gave all the teachers a deck of wonderfully illustrated water cards with some fun activities."

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Green Energy in Middle School

4/1/2016

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6th graders at Davidson Middle School are building solar cookers, making wind powered pulleys, and setting up weather stations to collect data!

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New Take on the Roller Coaster Project: Aqueducts!

3/25/2016

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Here are some resources, advise, and lesson from Josh Powell, Davidson Middle School

Lesson Plan

Video about the project

Paper Roller Coaster Parts

This website has several templates that you can choose from to create the parts they will use on this aqueduct.

Paper Roller Coaster Video

This video is a very inspirational video which I showed to my classes to get them excited about what they are going to be building.

Card Stock Paper

Card stock paper is needs to be bought in bulk to make it cost effective. Here is my source for card stock paper. But, I am by no means the best at shopping around. I do know as well that the weight of cardboard boxes such as cereal boxes is the same as what I use. The weight is important to make these structures stable enough to last through the different iterations of the project.

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Human Protractor

Website with NGSS classroom resources

Walking Functions

Spaghetti Tower Challenge

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Bridge Resources

Watershed Education Resources

Green Energy in Middle School

New Take on the Roller Coaster Project: Aqueducts!

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