May update
For the month of May . . .
Students will be investigating plants and animals through various activities projects and field trips.
This past week, students explored and discussed the following questions
"Why do plants produced fruit?"
"How do plants produce flowers?" Feel free to visit our "Class Dojo section for pictures and videos.
This week we are having a fruit and seed day (May 10th) where we will ask students to bring in a strange fruit/vegetable to cut and investigate as well as an seed to plant. If you can donate fruits or vegetables, it would be greatly appreciate that you send them in next week! An email was sent home with volunteer information regarding this event. We will need help cutting and potting plants.
To support this curriculum, we will be visiting the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens in the end of May. I will keep you posted on further details later.
8 Engineering Practices
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information (more information and rationales can be found at nextgen.org)
Students have also determined the following ideas:
1. What does a successful group look like?
2. How does a successful group respectfully disagree, use synergy, and come to a compromise?
3. What makes a professional looking toy/game?
4. How can we design a game that is original and fun?
5. When should we be done constructing our first prototype?
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For the month of May . . .
Students will be investigating plants and animals through various activities projects and field trips.
This past week, students explored and discussed the following questions
"Why do plants produced fruit?"
"How do plants produce flowers?" Feel free to visit our "Class Dojo section for pictures and videos.
This week we are having a fruit and seed day (May 10th) where we will ask students to bring in a strange fruit/vegetable to cut and investigate as well as an seed to plant. If you can donate fruits or vegetables, it would be greatly appreciate that you send them in next week! An email was sent home with volunteer information regarding this event. We will need help cutting and potting plants.
To support this curriculum, we will be visiting the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens in the end of May. I will keep you posted on further details later.
8 Engineering Practices
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering)
2. Developing and using models
3. Planning and carrying out investigations
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information (more information and rationales can be found at nextgen.org)
Students have also determined the following ideas:
1. What does a successful group look like?
2. How does a successful group respectfully disagree, use synergy, and come to a compromise?
3. What makes a professional looking toy/game?
4. How can we design a game that is original and fun?
5. When should we be done constructing our first prototype?
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