Our firsties are currently studying the Caldecott Award. After reading a recent Caldecott Honor book, Creepy Carrots by Peter Reynolds, students were introduced their their challenge - creating their own fence to contain a creepy carrot using only the materials provided. Overall, teams did a great job of working together and problem solving when something didn't work quite as planned. Here are some pictures of teams working and their final products.
The past two weeks, all of our 1st and 4th grade classes have been completing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) projects during their library visits. They have encountered challenges and road blocks along the way, but worked hard in their teams to complete their task at hand.
Our firsties are currently studying the Caldecott Award. After reading a recent Caldecott Honor book, Creepy Carrots by Peter Reynolds, students were introduced their their challenge - creating their own fence to contain a creepy carrot using only the materials provided. Overall, teams did a great job of working together and problem solving when something didn't work quite as planned. Here are some pictures of teams working and their final products.
Our friends in fourth grade created wind turbines for their STEM project as a culminating activity to the energy research unit we completed together in the learning commons. For this STEM activity, student teams took on one of six possible countries as they created their wind turbine. One added challenge for this particular STEM project was that the "resources" available (straws, cardboard, index cards, etc) to each country was different. Some teams felt that a lack of certain resources made their engineering task more difficult. This frustration for some tied directly into the Technology Justice component that we discussed towards the end of our unit. Did you know that about 33% of people in the world do not have electricity and some of the daily luxuries that we may take for granted without thinking twice about it? Through the creation of alternative energy sources, like the wind turbines our 4th graders pieced together, hopefully this percentage will decrease. Below are some pictures and video clips of our Wind Turbine STEM Challenge.
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CategoriesJenny WilliamsAfter 8 years in the classroom, I'm very eager and excited to be in my 5th year as Library Media Specialist in the Learning Commons of Langston Hughes! Archives
April 2019
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