Using Fictional Stories as a Pathway to Science Content
A few weeks ago, I posted my latest bulletin board: Snowflake Design Challenge. It may be difficult to see, but to the left of the board, I placed star stickers and had people use the stars to select which snowflake lasted 3.12 seconds in… Continue Reading “Snowflake Design Challenge: The Results Are In”
In my 2nd grade co-teaching classroom we kicked-off the 2018 Winter Olympics with a Kahoot, to gauge background knowledge, and used maps and sites to show our students where the games are being played, how many athletes are from our state, and how many… Continue Reading “Winter Olympics Kick Off!”
A few weeks ago, I found this site on Pinterest: “Winter STEM Challenges-Snowflake STEM”. While I didn’t look into the full details of the concept (meaning, I didn’t buy it on Teachers Pay Teachers), the idea did get me thinking and wondering. 🙂 I… Continue Reading “Snowflake Design Challenge: New Interactive Bulletin Board”
Since I have made it one of my goals to devote more time to one of my passions, fictional stories in science, and communicating my passion through this site, I have made some changes. One of those changes includes creating a heading titled: “School… Continue Reading “Site Update: Bulletin Boards”
To welcome the students back from break and to the new year, I created a new interactive bulletin board. I used a sentence starter, and my example of “A Beautiful Oops”, as my guide for the interaction. If you haven’t used sentence starters or… Continue Reading “Interactive Bulletin Board: Favorite Reads of 2017”