The ICSB elementary does a number of academic events throughout the year: Beach Day, Math Olympics, World's Fair, Young Author's Fair, and the Science Fair. It's a fun thing for the students - to be learning outside of the usual structure of school, to do projects, to show off their learning.
For the Science Fair this year, we decided that rather than doing an elementary wide day, each class could choose a unit to do as their science expo. Other classes could be invited in as would the parents. So far 2nd grade has done theirs on their animal unit, 1st grade did theirs on water (different properties of water and raising money to supply fresh water to families in Africa...soo cool!!!) and 3rd grade has done theirs (though the other classes weren't invited so I have no idea what they did ;) )
Ours was this last Friday. 4th grade studied Earth and Outer Space. What a fun unit! We learned about the causes of seasons, night, day, the Earth-Moon-Sun system, the inner and outer planets, and constellations. We also watched the "Indescribable" talk about the immensity of the universe by Louie Giglio, looked up times in the Bible when authors are talking about the heavens and the stars. Students had to create their own constellations and do a research project on a celestial body. We learned all about the Space Race and moon phases. We made a video where the students were the experts. They painted the planets and created a really cool bulletin board.
It was a lot of fun. The kids enjoyed it, and I think that the parents enjoyed seeing it all.
For the Science Fair this year, we decided that rather than doing an elementary wide day, each class could choose a unit to do as their science expo. Other classes could be invited in as would the parents. So far 2nd grade has done theirs on their animal unit, 1st grade did theirs on water (different properties of water and raising money to supply fresh water to families in Africa...soo cool!!!) and 3rd grade has done theirs (though the other classes weren't invited so I have no idea what they did ;) )
Ours was this last Friday. 4th grade studied Earth and Outer Space. What a fun unit! We learned about the causes of seasons, night, day, the Earth-Moon-Sun system, the inner and outer planets, and constellations. We also watched the "Indescribable" talk about the immensity of the universe by Louie Giglio, looked up times in the Bible when authors are talking about the heavens and the stars. Students had to create their own constellations and do a research project on a celestial body. We learned all about the Space Race and moon phases. We made a video where the students were the experts. They painted the planets and created a really cool bulletin board.
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| Painting Saturn |
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| Painting all of the planets |
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| Making the Space Race timeline |
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| Hanging up the planets and labels |
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| USA vs. USSR flags |
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| The finished product |
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| It's not likely I'll be taking it down any time soon |
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| My prompt - "Look like you know things about the Sun!" |
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| Friends telling everyone about constellations |
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| Showing moon phases with oreos while keeping the kids from eating them! |
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| Teaching some 2nd graders about the space race |
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| It's over! A job well done! |
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