Teaching about Ancient Civilizations

What is better than learning all about an Ancient Civilizations? Getting to share all of your new knowledge with your classmates! The Wildcats did a great job passing on all they now know. 

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Experimenting with light!

This week we wrapped up some very interesting lab work on light properties. Did you know that it is much easier to draw an image using a plane mirror rather than a convex one? How about the fact that you can be a magician with a little water, a penny, and light?

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Calder's Mobiles

Creating a class mobile using examples of Calder's mobiles and our knowledge about center of gravity.

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Chinese Folktales

We have been learning all about Folktales recently.  We started by reading many different Chinese Folktales in order to identify the components of a folktale.  Then we took two folktales and rewrote them as Reader's Theaters.  This was quite the learning experience for the students.  They had to work on fluency, expression, voice level and teamwork as well as reformatting an existing tale into a play like structure. Wow, what a lot of work! The Wildcats did a great job though and gave two very nice presentations.  Below you will find a video of the story of Aniz and the Magic Flute.

Next up writing our very own folktales!

Center of gravity

This week we answered the question"What is Center of Gravity?" The students practiced adjusting fulcrums to get different sized books to balance. Next week we apply our new knowledge to creating artistic mobiles like those of the artist Calder.

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Traveling through Time

This month we finished our journey through Ancient China. Now we are starting our exciting civilizations project for our living museum Mar. 16th.

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Playing Marbles with Newton

As a culminating activity on Newton, we played a game of classic marbles and applied our knowledge of Newton's laws to what we saw during play.  The Wildcats loved the game and it was fantastic to hear them working together to figure out how each of Newton's laws applied.