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Happy Winter Solstice! Friday, Dec. 21 is the first day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere - 24 hours of darkness on the North Pole. Do you know why?
Some classes and science club have been making shrink plastic keychains/zipper pulls from the cafeteria salad containers (rescued from the trash, of course!). These [...]

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Fifth graders have begun their unit on Energy. In keeping with the “going green” theme, we discussed nonrenewable and renewable energy. Solar energy is the theme of their classroom activities and we will address that in Science Lab following our electricity unit. Practice building circuits online here: Changing Circuits
Fourth graders are taking [...]

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Fifth graders have been reviewing the water cycle. Here is the video (

Download Okee Cycle
Fourth graders have been “rock detectives”. Practice what we learned in Science Lab at this great website: Mineralogy for Kids.
Second and third graders are classifying matter and learning about polymers and recycling. Try out this site for Polymers [...]

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A summer solstice (June 21) and a blue moon (June 30) - what a great month for science in the real world! The solstice was celebrated by those who live near the Artic Circle in the “Land of the Midnight Sun”. Did you have a party too? The blue moon doesn’t [...]

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Take the Energystar pledge to change one old-fashioned incandescent lightbulb to a new Energystar compact fluorescent bulb. Make sure “Eagle Point Elementary School” is selected as your organization. Our goal is to have 500 online pledges. 500 bulbs changed would mean saving $14,100 in energy costs and 223,000 pounds of carbon dioxide [...]

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Still focusing on our big unit theme of “Our Planet Earth”, all grades are studying processes that shape the Earth. Kindergarten and 1st graders have been classifying and describing the rocks and the slow changes they go through in the rock cycle. They have learned to describe using SCUMPS (size, color, use, [...]

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At the BBC website there are a ton of interactive games and quizzes for all ages. This one is an especially good review of the shadow lesson that Kindergarten and first graders are doing in science lab. Try the activity and the online quiz at http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/light_shadows.shtml
and here is one for 2nd - 5th [...]

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Happy New Year! After our little celebration on WNEST for the Winter Solstice just before break on Dec. 21, we are ready to link some of what we’ve learned into a brand new unit. Our new unit in Science Lab is what I’m calling “Our Planet Earth: Time and Place in Space”. [...]

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We have started our new unit I’m calling “Travel, Transportation, and Time”. In this unit we will address all the standards in force and motion and energy while relating them to our place in space (Earth and space sciences). I will be adding links here to great games and videos that are available [...]

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This year in science we will always be linking the science we are learning to the “real world” while covering all the science standards. All the activities we will cover in this unit will be related to hurricanes (while also learning about matter, energy, force & motion, and processes that shape the earth - [...]

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