Our grade-level has had three days so far devoted to science education. The first included lots of background information about the matter, atoms, the carbon cycle, habitats, and the water cycle. The next found students creating watershed models, and the third was a full-day devoted to outdoor education in a local nature preserve. The next day will find students discussing climate change as well as updating their science journals with carbon cycle model and properties' hunt notes, creating ponding nets, another ponding experience at a local stream, some map study and more matter exploration.
To prep for the day, we'll do the following:
- Plan the climate change lesson with our naturalist coach
- Prepare and distribute the carbon cycle models
- Revisit ponding efforts and supplies including making ponding nets
- Matching ponding efforts specifically to the standards
- Add "percolation" to water cycle models in the science journals
- Reviewing students' science journals and perhaps adding "badges" for tasks done to the end of each journal as a way of acknowledging students' study and learning.
