4/5/2013

Post date: Apr 04, 2013 6:28:9 PM

Second Grade Newsletter 4/5/2013

As you know our Wolf PBL is in full swing. We are looking forward to our field trip to Northglenn High School on Tuesday, April 9th. It will be a great experience for the students to present in the new STEM wing at the high school! Please make sure your child is dressed professionally and brings a sack lunch. We will record it so you can watch it on UStream live or at your leisure !

Ms. Silvaggio and Mrs. Tennant will be gone next Wednesday and Thursday to NSTA (National Science Teacher Association) Conference in San Antonio, Texas. We will be presenting “STEM Inquiry and PBL’s” as well as “Inspiring Achievement Through Rigorous, Innovative, and Authentic Experiences”. We are so excited to share the work we have done at STEM this year and with our previous students. It is an honor for us to share the great work your children are doing with other teachers in the nation. Thank you for helping us be the change in education as we work towards 21st century learning!

Goals for this week:

Science –

-Build a model of the Engineering Challenge Design Machine

-Test designs for paper airplanes

-Design a Rube Goldberg machine

-Demonstrate their knowledge of simple machines through a model, design, written description, and oral presentation

-Make observations about the variety of plants and animals living in an area and identify the specific places they live in order to make comparisons between different areas.

-Design a solution to a problem caused when a habitat changes and some of the plants and animals may no longer be able to live there.

-Develop and use models to compare how living things depend on their surroundings to meet their needs in the places where they live.

-Design a solution to a problem caused when a habitat changes and some of the plants and animals may no longer be able to live there.

Technology-

-Prezi

-Waterford Reading/Science/Math Program

-IXL

-EduCreations

-Pebble Go

-Brain Pop Jr.

-Google Site Development

-iPod math games

-Publish writing using MS Word

-Everyday Math Games

-National Geographic for Kids

-TCI Social Studies

-Kidspiration

-Animoto

-Discovery Education

Engineering

-Catapult design and improvement

-Force and motion

-Trace transmission of motion and transfer of energy through the machine

-Identify the lever mechanisms at work in the model

-Consider the needs of living animals

-Create a programmable model to demonstrate the knowledge and operation of digital tools and technological systems

-Build and test bird’s movement

-Improve the bird’s behavior by adding the motion sensor and programming sounds to coordinate the movement

-Understand how the bird’s head and tail change their angle position as the birds pivots

-Understand and use numbers to represent the type of sounds played and the amount of time in tenths of one second

Math

-Provide experiences with place-value concepts to ten-thousands

-Introduce the use of parentheses in number models

-Progress Check 10

-Unit 10 Math USB

-Finish Unit 10 IXL

STEM Success “Lynx”

Thank you Congressman Ed Perlmutter and his constituents for visiting our fabulous school!

How can you help?!?!

We are still in need of catapult donations to reimburse the catapult mentors, any amount is truly appreciated!