We are gearing up for another exciting week! We will continue our STEAM investigations through station rotations. Students will complete six activities by the end of the week. Last Friday, students took a quiz on last week's vocabulary as well as more on the Scientific Method. They should be bringing their quiz results home to you Monday if they did not already bring it home on Friday. (Some students did not want to wait until Monday!) If your child has a grade they would like to improve, simply sign the quiz report and return it to me and they will be able to take a retake in the library on Wednesday. The expectation is that students will do the studying necessary to improve their grade at home. Their Science Techbook is a good resource of information as well as Khan Academy.
Monday
Science: Vocabulary Flashcards - Observation, Inference, Data, Bias, Differentiate
Engineering: Balloon Tower Challenge - Students will be challenged to work in groups to build the tallest free-standing balloon tower. They will complete the full scientific method protocol in their science notebooks.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Technology: Republic/Scratch (students should be at approximately Unit 1 Lesson 3)
Arts: Word Drawings - Write as many vocabulary words from your key ring (15 words currently) in a way that help shows what they mean. For instance, if the words were nervous, epic, flashy, loud, heavy, or thoughtful you might use these pictures to the right.
Math: Measurement Olympics with Mrs. Preston - Students will practice taking precise measurements while making predictions about units of measure and making inferences about an objects size based on its unit of measure. For instance, a millimeter would not be used to measure an asteroid, but it might be used to measure rain amounts.
Career: NewsELA: Many articles have been assigned to you, but you just need to choose one Dream Jobs article that interests you! Write a summary, draw a mind map, answer the quiz, or create a 3...2...1... about the article.
Engineering: Balloon Tower Challenge - Students will be challenged to work in groups to build the tallest free-standing balloon tower. They will complete the full scientific method protocol in their science notebooks.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Technology: Republic/Scratch (students should be at approximately Unit 1 Lesson 3)
Arts: Word Drawings - Write as many vocabulary words from your key ring (15 words currently) in a way that help shows what they mean. For instance, if the words were nervous, epic, flashy, loud, heavy, or thoughtful you might use these pictures to the right.Math: Measurement Olympics with Mrs. Preston - Students will practice taking precise measurements while making predictions about units of measure and making inferences about an objects size based on its unit of measure. For instance, a millimeter would not be used to measure an asteroid, but it might be used to measure rain amounts.
Career: NewsELA: Many articles have been assigned to you, but you just need to choose one Dream Jobs article that interests you! Write a summary, draw a mind map, answer the quiz, or create a 3...2...1... about the article.
Thursday
Students will revisit their learnings and communicate them to the class by creating a paper slide video about their station activities. They will then rotate through each of the other group videos to learn about the other groups’ experiences. If students have personal technology like phones or tablets and would like to bring them to my class, please allow them. For an example of a paper slide video, here's one that Ms. Brown, Ms. Meston, Ms. Valerie and I made about why STEAM is important to kids.
We will also have a review discussion about our vocabulary words in context.
Friday
Students will take a quiz on Scientific Method (yes again!) and Vocabulary, and complete any rotation activities undone.
Homework
Monday - Make 5 observations about the street you live on.
Tuesday - Using ONLY the 5 observations you made about the street you live on, make 3 inferences about your neighborhood. You may not use what you know to be true, only your observations.
Wednesday - Review the inferences you made about your neighborhood. How does bias play into how you feel about where you live compared to the inferences you drew?
Thursday - Research and document data about your neighborhood. This might include number of houses on your street, colors of buildings, etc. Remember researching may involve interviewing people you know who may have information.
Tuesday - Using ONLY the 5 observations you made about the street you live on, make 3 inferences about your neighborhood. You may not use what you know to be true, only your observations.
Wednesday - Review the inferences you made about your neighborhood. How does bias play into how you feel about where you live compared to the inferences you drew?
Thursday - Research and document data about your neighborhood. This might include number of houses on your street, colors of buildings, etc. Remember researching may involve interviewing people you know who may have information.
As always, feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, thoughts or concerns!
Mrs. Preston
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