Blog Report- Dynamo Torch

 

 

 

Introducing our blog reporter, Miss Kaylee, as she shares about our recent science experiment with the Dynamo Torch!

It's ELECTRIC- Discovery Lesson

We had our first discovery lesson with electricity this morning and it has been so much fun (we listened to "The Electric Slide" too)!  Students were not given any background information or instructions, but were asked to use the materials at their stations to make the light bulb light up!  They are synergizing!

 

 

 

 

Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Card Sort

          We are studying natural resources in science and how using clean energy is best for our environment.  Students sorted the words into three categories: renewable, nonrenewable, and man-made products.  There were some great discussions happening!  We then watched a brain pop video and students got to change their answers after the video was over.

Courtyard Fourth Grade Service Project

We have started working on the courtyard for the year by pulling weeds last week.  Fourth grade has been taking care of the courtyard as a service project, since we reconstructed it three years ago by collaborating with the high school agriculture department.  They worked so hard and the saying "many hands make light work" is very true!  We enjoyed popsicles after our hard work!

 

Writer's Circle

We have a brand new writing curriculum at CCES and we love it!  On this day, we were sharing our "small moment" stories with our partners and boy, are we off to a great start with our narrative ideas!

Clean Energy Projects

          Scientists in the fourth grade science lab this week have been researching about clean energy sources, including geothermal, hydroelectric, solar, and wind energy.  They worked together to research in their groups about their energy source and then individually, they created a poster to display their information and then scored themselves as a self-reflection of their work.  Tomorrow we will present them and students will use a four-square organizer to take notes on each type of energy explained.

 

Dynamo- Energy Transfer

     This week we have been learning how energy of motion can be transferred into energy of electricity and used to light our light bulbs.  We read "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" to learn about how a teenager created a windmill to provide electricity for his small village in Africa.