I am excited to teach STEAM to our youngest learners. I hope that through exploring hands-on activities, as well as watching and discussing live labs and phenomena, children will learn and grow as curious observers, and improve upon their abilities to ask relevant questions, and seek out answers about the world around them.
Welcome to STEAM!
Last Week of School
Kindergarten: Planning for Storms Performance Assessment.
1st Graders: GIANT FUN QUIZ of everything from the year!
2nd Graders: GIANT FUN QUIZ of everything from the year!
Week of May 24th
Kindergarten: Lesson 6: How can people prepare for storms?
1st Graders: We will learn about the placement of the planets, and what is unique about each one.
2nd Graders: Performance Assessment: Protecting America's Shorelines.
Week of May 17th
Kindergarten: Lesson 5: What makes storms on earth?
1st Graders: We will learn more about constellations and sky objects. We will be working on paper from home, not our TCI books for the last couple of weeks.
2nd Graders: Solving problems caused by wind and water. Landslides video, in class demo, and an opportunity to try demo at home
Week of May 10th
Kindergarten: Keeping cool at the park. Performance Assessment.
1st Graders: Performance Assessment Part 2. Last week of TCI workbooks.
2nd Graders: Lesson 6 How do wind and water change the land?
Week of May 3rd
Kindergarten: Continue with shade makers.
1st Graders: Performance Assessment Part 1
2nd Graders: Lesson 5 How do earthquakes and volcanoes change the land?
Week of April 26
Kindergarten: How can people stay cool in warm weather? Making a shade maker.
1st Graders: Where are the stars in the sky? Making constellations with paper cups
2nd Graders: Lesson 4: How does earth's surface change?
Week of April 19
Kindergarten: What keeps the Earth Warm? Are things warmer in the sun or in the shade? Vocab: warmer, cooler, sun, shade
1st Graders: Lesson 4 Text with notes. Moon's journey across the sky, using calendar.
2nd Graders: Performance Assessment: Making a model of a national park
Week of April 5
Kindergarten: Continuation of Lesson 2 - Seasons, Temperature, Rainfall analysis.
1st Graders: Lesson 4 Where is the moon in the sky?
2nd Graders: Performance Assessment: Making a model of a national park
Week of March 29
Kindergarten: Unit 3, Lesson 2: When does Weather Change? Studying and graphing weather patterns.
1st Graders: Lesson 3: Page 39: Sunrise to Sunset
2nd Graders: Lesson 3: How do maps give us different information?
Week of March 22nd
Kindergarten: During our first hybrid week, we will read a story about weather, Cyril the Lonely Cloud and sing a weather song. link: Weather Song
1st Graders: How long is the sun in the sky? We will watch a time-lapse of the sun rising and setting in winter and summer. We will discuss the differences that we see in summer and winter, and the objects in the sky.
2nd Graders: We will discuss how maps tell us different information. How is a globe different from an atlas, different from a flat map? What types of maps are there? What information do they give us?
Week of March 8th
Kindergarteners will finish their weather pictures this week. We will draw rain, hail, rainbows and snow. Weill discuss the similarities and differences of each.
1st Graders: Where is the sun in the Sky? We will play a Kahoot! Game to test our knowledge of what we have learned so far.
2nd Graders: We will play a Kahoot! as a MEGA class, on the topic of landforms.
Week of March 1st
Kindergartners will explore some extreme weather this week. We will discuss and draw examples of windy, lightning, tornadoes and hurricanes.
1st Graders: We will discuss patterns of objects in the sky. How do the sun, moon, and stars move predictably?
2nd Graders: We will continue to talk about landforms and draw our own examples of different landforms
Week of February 22
Kindergarteners will begin our weather unit. We will explore sunny, cloudy, partly cloudy, and foggy weather.
1st Graders: We will begin our new unit on objects in the sky. Sun, Moon, Stars
2nd Graders: We will begin talking about landforms, and how they differ from one another.
Week of February 8th
Kindergarteners: Our trimester will culminate in a marble playground. The kindergarten students will design a marble playground using any or all of the elements that we have explored this trimester.
1st Graders: We will design our own ideas of light and sound communication devices
2nd Graders: We will make a prototype for a weather proof material.
Week of February 1st
Kindergarteners: We will modify our ramps to go faster, slower, higher, lower, and look at how changes to the ramp, change the ball direction.
1st Graders: We will continue our discussion on the topic of light and sound. We will discuss more things that are communication devices using both light and sound.
2nd Graders: We will discuss recycling materials and upcycling old materials for new uses.
Week of Jan 25
Kindergarteners: will build another type of ramp, a vertical one! Get the chip from the top left corner, to the bottom right, using only bumpers. Don't touch your chip on it's journey!
1st Graders: We will discuss how people use light and sound to send messages. Ambulances, alarm clocks, fire alarms, etc. We will modify a real or home made instrument to send a message
2nd Graders: We will do hands on experiments with Mrs. Goble on Zoom. We will write our observations of what we saw in our books.
Week of Jan 18
Kindergarteners will begin working on their prototypes for a ramp for a ball to roll down to a pond. How can we get the ball to stop in a particular place? How can we use inspiration from bumpers in bowling, to design and facilitate the ball's journey?
1st Graders: How does Sound travel. We will explore sound traveling on land, water, and through solids
2nd Graders: Properties of Materials - What happens when materials are heated or cooled?
Week of January 11th CONFERENCE WEEK. Mininum Days ALL week.
Each grade level shall receive one science lesson this week, due to the short week. Kindergarteners will continue to learn about what happens when things bump, how do you make things change direction by bumping them?
1st Graders will make their own instruments using various materials at home.
2nd Graders will learn about mixing materials. What happens when you do that? Why would you choose to mix materials?
Week of January 4th
Kindergarten: What happens when objects bump?
1st: How are sounds made? Introduction to vibration and instruments. Orchestra. TEST on light on Thurs/Fri
2nd: Best materials for purposes. What should we look for in a slide? Waterproof? Hard? Soft? Smooth? Rough?
Week of December 14th
1st Grade: Making snowflakes, learning about snowflakes.
2nd Grade: Snowflake Bentley story and discussion. Continue bridge building. Discuss best materials to use for each purpose
Week of December 7
Kindergarten: Brainpop jr on motion
1st Grade: Sources of light. Making own shadow puppets. How do you change a shadows size, shape?
2nd Grade: Bridge building video, discussion and preparation to build own bridges.
Week of November 30: Lesson 3
Kindergarten: Pushes and pulls with a wagon. How do we change direction? How do we change the speed?1st Grade: Light and Shadow introduction
2nd Grade: How are various materials made, and what are the properties? How do you change the shape of materials?
Week of November 23: Only 2 days due to Thanksgiving Break:
Kindergarten: Pushes and pulls introduction
1st Sources of light. Natural vs artificial light
2nd: Introduction to waterproof and absorbent materials and vocabulary
Week of November 16
Kindergarten: Students will begin Unit 2. They will use the materials sent home to do an exploration using pushes and pulls. They will move their bodies to show their understanding
First graders will learn about how light travels.
Second graders will learn about the three states of matter
Week of November 9th: Start Unit 2
This week we will be beginning unit 2.
Kindergarten students will be finishing up their Unit 1 Recycling exploration, and making choices about what to reuse, recycle, and reduce
First graders will be beginning their exploration of light in various forms. fire, flashlights, fireworks, lightning bugs. They will be conducting an investigation at home using glowsticks
Second graders will be exploring materials and their properties. They'll be using their knowledge of adjectives to describe objects' properties. They will be doing a hunt at home for various materials; wood, paper, glass, metal, plastic and rubber.
Week of November 2nd End of Trimester 1
Kindergarten students will be learning how humans can make a positive difference in the world, by reusing, recycling, and reducing their consumption
First Graders will be finishing Unit 1, with a video exploration of animals and their young. How do animals care for their young babies?
Second Graders will be going under the sea to explore some spooky and mysterious creatures in the depths of the ocean.
Week of October 26th
Kindergarten students will be learning about properties of wood and paper.
1st graders will be learning about animal adaptations
2nd graders will be learning about pond animals
Week of October 19th
This week students are learning about different habitats and animal adaptations. How are do lions and eagles catch their food? How do desert animals survive with so little water?
Week of October 13th
Students will be learning how plants and animals sense things, how they change the earth, and how they survive in their habitats.
Weeks of September 28th to October 5th
A 2 week mini unit. Students will be learning about habitats. Students will be analyzing the body parts and features of plants and animals. Kindergarteners will be introduced to underwater and desert habitats.
1st graders will be analyzing jungles, forests, deserts, and polar habitats.
2nd graders will be observing differences in polar and desert animals.
Week of September 21st
Students will be discovering the relationship and symbiosis between plants and animals. How do they depend on each other? How do they interact? How do plants make new plants? How do plants and animals look like their parents?
Week of September 14th
Students will discuss the needs of plants and animals. What do they need to live? How do they differ depending on where they live?
What are examples of different foods that animals eat? What are types of plants? How do they differ? What is the same?
Week of September 7th
Students will begin working in their TCI workbooks as we delve deeper into plant and animal characteristics. Students will have an opportunity for hands on investigations and treasure hunts at home for examples of plants and animals that they have in their home environment or the local vicinity. Students will do a hands on sink or float investigation.
Week of August 31
Students will begin their investigations in to plants and animals. Students will explore similarities and differences between plants and animals, and continue their observations and detailed drawings of what they saw.
Week of August 24th:
K-2 Students will meet Mrs. Goble twice this week.
Day 1: We will do a lesson on scientific observations. Language objectives: Using the words, who, what, where, why, how, difference, similarities to discuss what we observe
Day 2: We will do a lesson on scientific sketching. ABCDE rules. How to draw realistic pictures, like a scientist.
Week of August 17th:
K-2 Students will be introduced to Mrs. Goble, and receive a very general overview of what we will cover this year.
