Friday, October 2, 2015

Like a Shiny New Penny

Learning about chemical reactions, students hypothesize and explore cleaning pennies with various materials.














Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Fabulous 4th Grade!!

Everything is new and we are taking a very step by step approach. They are doing fabulously. I am thoroughly enjoying my time with them. Step by step so we can build up to more complicated labs. Learning to work in a lab and with each other is a huge learning curve!





Monday, May 12, 2014

8th grade

Newton's 2nd Law of Motion in a game! Students made up a game using corks and a catapult and their imaginations....Class of 2014 working their magic! Love it.
F=MxA A =F/M
Now demonstrate it!










Something to think about...

8th grade

Lots and lots of physics principles being studied and experiments/labs are in full swing.
This lab tested Newton's First and Third Laws of Motion.






4th grade - checking out a bird aviary webcam

The students made observations looking at the bird aviary webcam at www.montereybayaquarium.org






5th grade

Making parallel and series circuits - is it an open or closed circuit? And what does that mean exactly?