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Fourth Grade Math: Data and Probability
Fourth Grade Math: Data and Probability
What are the odds your student has shared their learning from this unit?
Hopefully, they have! Students have been covering a vast array of advanced math concepts: absolute value, measures of central tendency and their favorite mean absolute deviation (MAD). Only a few of us were MAD about it. This group will wrap up with practice finding the interquartile range of data sets. I am so proud of their focused work!
Fourth Grade Literacy Group: Independent Learning Success
This incredible group of thinkers and doers has embarked on student choice independent learning projects. Watching them work and conferencing about their progress brings me so much joy. The formative pieces show epic growth already! I look forward to seeing their final products.
Book Club
Fan Fiction
Research Papers
Creative Writing
Clean planet project: 4th grade math
This amazing group took real life data from the department of energy to solve what is needed to transition us to 100% clean energy. They also had to be interviewed about their solutions and justify their work. Of course, We had to make time for some hands-on application.
I am so proud of their problem-solving and perseverance with this project.
(Almost) Final Math Olympiad
(Almost) Final Math Olympiad
Our next Math Olympiad competition will be March 2nd. There is nothing that needs to be done to prepare. Your student has been practicing in class and will be ready for the event.
Socratic Seminars with GT Literacy
Students are learning the art of debating using the Socratic Seminar while following the CER format (making a claim, using supporting evidence and reasoning). Each week students read an above grade level text (or collection of articles), take notes and engage in a debate around one of the probing questions above. They peer edit each other's participation in the Socratic Seminar, strength of argument and self-reflect. They are becoming skilled debaters!
Are video games safe for kids?
Are video games safe for kids?
Could humans survive and thrive on other planets?
Could humans survive and thrive on other planets?
Should athletes be allowed to participate in their sport if they do not abide by all safety measures?
Should athletes be allowed to participate in their sport if they do not abide by all safety measures?
Math Olympiad
Math Olympiad
Our next Math Olympiad competition will be January 30th. There is nothing that needs to be done to prepare. Your student has been practicing in class and will be ready for the event. If they cannot attend, they will be able to participate in the next MOEMS competition in February.
For this unit, students conducted in-depth research about plant structures, adaptations, photosynthesis process and much more!!! (See an example above) To culminate their research, students used their knowledge to create a new plant species. Enjoy samples of their work here.
Grab your passport!
Grab your passport!
For this unit, fourth grade math enrichment students planned an imaginary trip to another country. With a budget, students calculated percentages for taxes and worked with decimals to ensure they met the requirements for the journey. Here is a sample from their PBL:
Flights to Tokyo are 12% more than original flight cost, and the cost of the hotel stay for the duration of the trip is 3/4 the cost of your flight to Tokyo. The original flight cost is six times the cost of the purchase of luggage which is $207. How much is the cost of flight to Tokyo and hotel combined?
STEM Fun: Math Enrichment
Students were tasked with creating a board game that includes/teaches multiplication, division, prime and composite content. This project required so much more than just a knowledge of the math concepts. Students had to be able to:
explain processes in detail
manage time to complete all aspects of the project
be open to feedback as well as being skilled at providing it to peers
problem-solve when their plan was not working
be knowledgable enough about the content to teach it in a creative way
Math Olympiad
Math Olympiad
Our first Math Olympiad competition is November 15th. There is nothing that needs to be done to prepare. Your student has been practicing in class and will be ready for our first event. If they cannot attend, they will be able to participate in the next MOEMS competition in December.
Through writing poetry, students were able to explain and describe a specific science topic of their choice using critical attributes and defining characteristics.
As inspiration for their final poem about space, students took a virtual reality-based trip through the Milky Way... and beyond...
Here are some samples of their hard work:
Pesticides
Annoying, deadly
Killing, harming, damaging
Spray, toxic flumes, chemical, fatty tissue
Destroying, failing, spraying
Illegal, destructive
DDT
Cooper
Mars,
Dry, red,
Dusting, redding, staining,
Maroon, orbiting, green, wet,
Raining, blowing, growing,
Wind, fire,
Earth
Becks
Black holes : Quatrain
Black holes are super strong A
Because if you come to close B
Because it will be wrong A
It will pull everything even those B
Not even light can escape
Black holes are very deadly
And it will rip you up like a crepe
So don’t be too friendly
Black holes might mate
They will collide
Or give the other a kick of hate
Black holes you can’t see as they hide
They are all black
You won’t see them
Even at the back
It will pull you again and again
Dylan
`Moon
The moon, 251,967 miles away,
Can make your head sway
With all the facts about the moon
The moon was created about 4.5 billion years ago
Astronauts have landed there
Not to see aliens everywhere
It takes 27 days to orbit the Earth
I wonder if I could ever visit the moon
At -67 degrees Fahrenheit, it would be very freezing
Especially if the moon’s gas is slowly releasing
If you weighed a hundred pounds
You would weigh 16 on the moon
The moon is covered in gray dust
So you have to wear a spacesuit in that must
And sometimes there is a supermoon
When the moon is full and very close to Earth
Lucy
Space
Planets orbiting around our solar system
Our sun that beams to light up the world
The gas and chemicals, that swirled
And it collected in one spot and curled
The earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago
This all happened extraordinarily slow
At that moment the earth rapidly started to grow
There were lots of ginormous though
At that moment the moon was starting to be created
With the earth growing that caused a lot of major collisions
One on those monstrous hits caused
So much dust and gas was released
Then the compacted gas and dust
Came together and made a planets with som windy gusts
Amelia
Quatrains: A car’s beautiful engine.
Press a button start the car
Under the hood the
Engine is fuming listen
Hear it purr ready
The engine is complex with
Cylinders that seal
With a spark plug one side and
Two valves accompany it
Crankshaft the other
Inside the cylinders are
pistons they are like
Miniature plungers in the engine
The pistons are attached to
The crankshaft and slide
Up and down Retracting energy
From the explosion
Valves are important
The inlet and outlet valves
Let air in pushing
The bad exhaust out as C2O
There are 4 strokes in the engine
The first is intake
You let air in the piston
Is pulled away from the
The second is compression
The piston goes up
The inlet valve closes
no air goes in or out
Third is combustion a
Mini-explosion
Creates burning gasses that
makes the Piston go down
Then the last is awesome
Yet very deadly
The earth hates it but the car loves
It’s the best you know
Exhaust is the last place the
Engine goes through
The force of the crankshaft keeps
the rotation going
The outlet valve the n releases
Letting the exhaust out.
The 4-stroke beautiful engine
Now may rest in peace but
The engine is sweating
When you drive after
It’s hot after because its ben
Working hard doing it over again and again
Grant
Sun and blackhole
Sun
Red, serious
Blazing, smoldering, sss
Star, giant, black, dark
Stunning, shushing, nothing
Strong, old
Black Hole
Harrison
Stars
Bright, shining
Burning, falling, forming
Space, galaxy, black, gravity
Spinning, sucking, pulling
Void, theoretical mass
Black hole
Emerson
Ice Vs Gas
Uranus
Icy, large
Freezing, orbiting, rotating
Gas, rings, moons, gas
Floating, surrounding, rotating
Gigantic, stormy
Jupiter
Sebastian
Sun
Golden bright
Burning shining glowing
Star lava alien asteroid
Circling freezing floating
Lifeless milky
Moon
Darren
Venus
Overcast, bright
Burning, darkening, blazing
Volcano, dust, clouds, rain
Freezing, orbiting, screeching
Cold, blue
Neptune
Eliana
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