Soil and STEMscopes

Third graders are learning about the formation of soil.   Using Stemscopes, the students explore how soils are formed by weathering of rock and the decomposition of plant and animal remains.STEMscopes is an online, supplemental curriculum program that provides numerous hands-on inquiry activities.

Taking Research to the Extreme!

First graders are taking learning to the limits with their extreme research.  Each class chose a different topic to research.  When the project when does the class put their their knowledge on display with a paper slide show.  Watch and learn all about Extreme Weather, Frogs and the Solar System.

Extreme Weather

 

Fascinating Frogs

Space: the Final Frontier

Math Excels with Excel

A trip to the computer lab, made math a bit easier for fifth graders as they learned that understanding formulas can allow spreadsheet programs like Excel to do the math work for them. Fifth graders were given the following situation:
*Your boss has given you two choices of salary schemes. You have to decide which of the choices will permit you to reach your goal of $1000 the fastest. These are the two choices:
1.Your salary will be doubled each day. You will earn $1 the first day $2 the second day, $4 the
third day and so on. OR
2. Your salary will increase $3 each day. You will make $3 the first day, $6 the second day, $9 the third day and so on.
The students completed this assignment on paper. They used problem-solving skills to identify the patterns and create the formulas needed to determine how to reach their goal the fastest. Then the classes went to computer lab and learned how spreadsheets can help manage data. They also learned how to create a line graph with date after completing their table. 

Stop Motion Fun

Fourth grade used stop-motion animation to create short videos.  The students collaborated with partners to create their videos.  One student held the camera and the other moved the object in small increments to create movement when turned into a video.  Then the students use Windows Movie Maker to create their animations. The results were moving!

Egg-citing Predictions

First graders in Mrs. Riggin's class are making predictions, taking surveys and creating graphs with their findings.  Each student created three questions and surveyed others.  With the results, they used a template created in Excel to create a simple bar graph. A lot of learning is predicted for these first graders!

Pebble Go

First Graders in Mrs. Flott's class learn how to use Pebble Go for their research projects.  Pebble Go is a database provided by the Canyon Creek Library that is specifically designed for your beginning researchers.

Cultural Clouds

Chao! Tagxedo is a program used to create word clouds.  Students in third grade used Tagxedo to create word clouds of common words in the language of the culture they studied for their project. Adios!