Myth Busters Parts of an Experiment

Watch this video and take note of important parts of an experiment.

This video can also help you understand the importance of only changing one variable.

Experimenting with Sewer Lice!!

Exploring Sewer Lice!

They are little, they move, they breathe, and they eat!

Systems Approach and Lorax Concept Maps

Here are some of our students' concept maps in action!

They are making connections and showing interactions within the ecosystem in the Land of Lorax.

Systems Approach - The Lorax Movie

Today we talked about a systems approach to science and how to breakdown complicated things into systems and sub-systems.

Here is an example of a science notebook.

The Original Lorax Movie from 1972

Mystery Cubes

Today in class we investigated what good science looked like.

Mystery Cube Activity

We modeled trying to find out:

What does the bottom of the cube look like?

Students came up with the following list of skills used today in class.

Here is a template of a cube if you want to try to put it together.

My Science Summer

Our first activity is "My Scientific Summer."  We will ask you to think of an aspect of the summer that you can relate to a discipline or disciples of science.  

Click here to access the descriptor of "My Scientific Summer"

Example of some past layouts for "My Scientific Summer."

Team Building the First Week

Students working on the "Mine Field"  

Building Trust, Communication, and Listening Skills