Congratulations to this week's winners of The Ham Award:
5th grader, Ryan B.
4th grader, Katherine B.
Ham was one of the first space explorers. As a chimpanzee, he provided data from his space travel that led to manned-space flight. The Ham Award is given to a student who exhibits above-and-beyond action in TAG class. Read more about Ham: http://www.space.com/16065-space-chimp-ham.html
Fourth Grade
This unit is a research unit, so today the students participated in an activity to see if they could glean the most important information from a website. Check out the two websites and see if YOU can glean the most important information: http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/ http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ What do you think was the research "lesson" the students were supposed to learn? Students created a walking scale model of the solar system, based on the distance of 100 feet between the Sun and Pluto. Check out their movie below: |
Fifth Grade
If you get a small cut on your finger or a blister on your foot, what do you put over it? Did you say, "Band-Aid?" Band-Aid (the brand) is just one example of an adhesive bandage. The Band-Aid was invented in 1921 and gained popularity over subsequent years, becoming a household name. Eventually "Band-Aid" came to mean any adhesive bandage. The trademaker name was GENERICIZED. The students were able to come up with other brand names that have become genericized: Kleenex, Chapstick, Popsicles, Scotch Tape, Sharpies, Post-It Notes, and more. The students participated in The Great Adhesive Bandage Experiment. They each selected three brands of bandages and wrote hypotheses: Which brand will stay on the longest? Which brand will hurt the most when I take it off? When brand can be re-applied and still stick? They wore the band-aids through the normal activities of a fifth grader and then determined if their hypotheses were accurate or not. The Water Tower is beautiful. The seeds that the students planted last week sprouted enough to transplant them into the baskets on the Water Tower - all except eggplant and peppers. No action from those seeds yet. The students now know the three types of businesses in America and that 70% of the nation's businesses are sole proprietorship.
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