Sci-Wiki-Tific
Everything is scienTIFIC! And YOU are TERRIFIC!
The first day is Wednesday, February 7, 2024. This has a FREE, excellent and fun opportunity for your child to learn English while exploring science, art, culture, and math! Look for the INVITATION permission slip in your child's bookbag! Thank you for having your child participate in the PS 48 program to learn more English!
The students of PS 48 learn to code, or create, programs that give directions to a computer user to play a game, or tell a story. They are creative, solving problems, and getting to work in careers (jobs) that need coding skills! Check out the computer scientists in action!
Who's ready to be curious? Who's ready to learn something new? Who's ready to teach others what they know? Who's ready to make new friends? I sure am. My name is Mr. Czarka and I will help you learn English this year. We will learn by being curious about the world around us! Let's get ready. Learn more about your school here.
In November, the students of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School and PS 48: The Joseph Rodman Drake School hosted a collaborative day of connecting, learning, and remembering. The goal was to honor our collective ancestors, including those whose final resting place is within the Enslaved People’s Burial Ground.
Students first met each other at the BronxArtSpace museum space to get to know each other, shared ways we remember our loved ones and ancestors, and created painted rocks to memorialize people special to us. From there, after a communal lunch, students walked side by side to Drake Park to gather, honor ancestors, and engage in community building activities.
Thank you to BronxArtSpace, Alethea Pace, Aleta Brown, and Phil Panaritis for facilitating this day of connecting, building community, and remembrance.
Check out the PS 48 student scientists!
Students are using microscopes to explore the microscopic world and explore Digital Citizenship using Interland.
Find out how you can be creative, inventive, and inquisitive using coding and computer science! Check out these different computer science activities. There is activities for all ages and skill levels. If you complete an activity, tell Mr. Czarka. He will give you an award! :) Check out photos of the different CS activities PS 48 classes are doing, including Code Your Hero computer science projects on Scratch!
Welcome to Sci-Wiki-Tific!
It's a website where everything is fun and scienTIFIC. You will open your eyes to science ALL AROUND YOU.
Every time you wonder about ANYTHING, you are doing a bit of science (well, sorta...).
Plus, science is fun. You get to play with cool tools, travel to new places, meet other people, and even make discoveries!
Get to know the scientists and where they are from.
Learn and explore online. Find great websites and apps! Forgot your username or password, find it at My Digital Learning Access. Be a Digital Citizen. Always be safe! Always be respectful!
Create Jokes Using Computer Science Coding Skills
Do you like "Knock Knock" jokes? I sure do! Create a joke using computer science. Code two Sprites telling a "Knock Knock" joke using Scratch.
Mr. Czarka just learned how to do this at his CS4All class. Ask him about it. And comment on his joke and the code he wrote to tell it (the joke)! :)
Mr. Czarka Explores the Ocean Habitat
Mr. Czarka spent over two weeks exploring the Eastern Pacific Ocean. He conducted scientific research with NOAA scientists as a NOAA Teacher at Sea. He learned about different animal and plant species, and used different equipment to learn about the health of the ocean. He traveled from San Francisco, California, all the way north to Seattle, Washington. He travelled 200 miles out into the Pacific Ocean. Now, what does that look like on a map? Where did he travel? What did he see? Go find out!
Mr. Czarka uses his field notebook to write down what he observes* about birds in the Pacific Ocean.
*"Observe" means studying something by looking at it closely.