Blog Highlights – Updated 04/17/2013
Tag Archives: inquiry
5G: Recipe for Traits
What does a cooking recipe, origami instructions, diagram of a chart stand, and a house plan have in common? They are all instructions on how to make something. Just like these examples, organisms have a recipe too. It’s called DNA. … Continue reading
4A: You Crack Me Up!!
Did you know that scientist believe that the Earth’s continents were once one giant big one? Scientist call it Pangaea. The Earth’s outer most layer, the crust, is broken up into many different sections called plates. This plates move around … Continue reading
5G: Save the Birds from Pollution
This year’s 5th graders are starting off the school year exploring how humans are impacting the Earth. Many of the students shared that people are harming the Earth in different ways, such as throwing trash on the road, cutting down … Continue reading
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5G: Solar Boat Videos are HERE!
As the trimester starts coming to an end, the 5th graders are hard at work putting final touches on their solar boats for the HELCO 5th Annual Solar Boat Regatta being held this Saturday, May 12 from 8 am till … Continue reading
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3G: Expand or Contract?
Heat energy can make many things move or change. When an object is warm or hot, the tiny molecules like to move around and expand. When an object is cool or cold, the tiny molecules like to stay in one … Continue reading
4G: Friction and Planes
Simple machines make work easier. As the fourth graders build and test out various types of simple machines, they are exploring how these machines make work easier. One of the experiments they conducted was to see how friction plays a … Continue reading
3G: Light Splits into Colors
Finally a sunny day for the third graders to conduct their last light energy experiment. Using the sun’s light and a prism, students had to figure out how to position the prism in order to split the sun’s light into … Continue reading
1G: Liquids in a Bottle
While learning about the states of matter, the first graders worked on their predicting skills. Liquids in a Bottle had the first graders guessing what they thought were in the bottle. They were able to shake and turn up side … Continue reading
Tomato Hornworm Moth?
Remember that mystery creature we posted last week. Well, look what it looks like now! Yes, the pupa/cacoon hatched sometime over the weekend. When first looking at it in the container, I thought it was dead. It wasn’t moving and … Continue reading
Mystery Creature Found
Do you know what this is? Second grader Sean and his family found this mystery creature in their garden during the holidays. However, we’re having a hard time trying to figure out what it is. First we thought might be … Continue reading
