Volume
Look at the picture below. Ask your fourth grader (don't ask 4L students until Friday) to tell you how to determine the volume of the toy dinosaur.
**BONUS** Can you locate the meniscus?
Look at the picture below. Ask your fourth grader (don't ask 4L students until Friday) to tell you how to determine the volume of the toy dinosaur.
**BONUS** Can you locate the meniscus?
Students in 5B located their pulse and observed how their heart rate was affected by exercise.
Third graders are watching the skies this week and writing down their observations using weather symbols. They are using an abbreviated list of symbols, but check out the link below for the 100 present weather symbols used by meteorologists.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/synoptic/ww_symbols.htm
Ask your student about what centers they visited and what they observed about the pitch of sound.
Last week, 6th grade students mastered the parts of the compound microscope and began working viewing specimen under the microscopes. Ask your student what specimen they viewed.
Last week, 5th graders presented some very interesting extra credit projects ranging from extinct animals, to Vermeer, to the reason why laughing is contagious. Stop by the bulletin board outside the science room to check out the projects!
Students in third grade learned about the different types of clouds that can be observed in the sky. Each student constructed a cloud mobile of the three main cloud types. Ask your student to tell you about the roots of the names.
2nd graders were amazed by the Star Wars sounds that were created by hooking a HUGE, garage door spring up to a coffee can amplifier. Ask your student to tell you about it! Afterward each student constructed their own rubber band amplifier. Hopefully your child's amplifier remained in tact on the ride home.
The 6th Grade students continue to research and present interesting extra credit projects. This week we learned about the dominant and recessive genes associated with variation in eye color, the two types of melanin: euomelanin and pheomelanin that determine hair color, and The Copernican Revolution.
Question: Who is Watson?
Fifth grade students were introduced to "machine learning," as it specifically relates to Watson, the Jeopardy-playing computer whose creation was inspired by Ken Jennings' 2004 winning streak. Check out the link below to view the complete story from NOVA:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html