Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Student Engineers - tripod adaptor


Students use their recess time to work on real problems in the school community - in this case, how to use a an old tripod with a new cell phone.



Thursday, December 17, 2015

Second Grade Learns About Metric Liquid Volume


As part of their Properties of Matter studies, students learn a little bit more about liquids.
Using Graduated Cylinders - students travel to different stations to measure the exact amount of liquid in a variety of different containers.

They learn about the metric system, and how to estimate the number of milliliters of water!
Making careful measurements







Correct placement - always read at eye level!




Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Sixth Graders Participating in an Hour of Code

Second Graders Play a Computer Coding Game for Hour of Code Week

They have a set of cubes on a cube board

They are given a set of coded instructions

and they are "robots." who follow a program.

THE NEXT DAY 
We apply our new skills to actually coding games...