She developed criteria for the three grade levels in her class: 4th: Earth's Landforms, 5th Celestial Bodies, 6th Endangered Sea Life. And then she tied in a simple literacy piece with the explanatory paragraph and the construction process paragraph. They are displayed nicely in the hall for all to see. Out of more than 60 students only 4 did not complete one. That's high motivation for a homework project! She credits Hyde Park Teacher Denielle Endres for the idea. Love it Emily!!
I hope you will take time to view this slide show of an absolutely marvelous science project. It was assigned by my Colleague, Emily Westerling, just this past month to coincide with the holiday season. She developed criteria for the three grade levels in her class: 4th: Earth's Landforms, 5th Celestial Bodies, 6th Endangered Sea Life. And then she tied in a simple literacy piece with the explanatory paragraph and the construction process paragraph. They are displayed nicely in the hall for all to see. Out of more than 60 students only 4 did not complete one. That's high motivation for a homework project! She credits Hyde Park Teacher Denielle Endres for the idea. Love it Emily!! holiday
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We have a micro-forest that our wonderful volunteer, Bill Berger, has cleared much honeysuckle. Volunteers have laid a path and now our students enjoy a short walk under a developing canopy. The first picture is turkey tail - white and orange. Also notice smaller dabs of an orange jello-like fungus. I don't know the names of these winter marvels. 4th grader Maman found the mulch in the path exploding with mushrooms. She was thrilled! We will check back and possibly document it's progress as a decomposer. A delightful little village of mushrooms! No, no....we don't even think about eating them.
Kids can study and have fun at the same time. December's science homework was to create a game or develop a comic strip. The game required students to design a game board using the topic of their science studies. 5th grade was reasons for the seasons and 6th was energy. They also had to write directions and design any tokens. I provided the task cards and game board templates. I did not want kids stripping their home game boards of dice so I assured them we have plenty at school. Pictured here are a selection of games. In the future I would like to give guidance on enhancing with graphics. I could also provide some clip art. We have had two game playing sessions in class. I organized them (lots of parts need bags and frog clips) and have a special shelf for them. We look forward to future game playing.....and hope for some learning too! |
Judy GananceWhat is important in my life? Health, family, community, teaching & learning, forest, lepidoptera, photography, knitting, cooking & technology. It is a great pleasure to explore science and sensible problem solving with our children of Parker Woods Montessori. Archives
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