Our field trip to Edmonton started bright and early at 6:30 in the morning. When we arrived, students took in a first presentation on light. Students were able to put their prior knowledge to good use as they experimented with tools that showed the movement of light. Next, we took in a science demo called Spectacular Spectrum! It takes about light and color for grades 1 to 6 and really showed how our understanding of light evolves through grade school. After lunch and some running around, students got to explore the galleries! They touched on all of our science outcomes and involved lots of hands on exploration. Favorites were the Science Garage and Body Fantastic! Lastly, and probably the highlight for many kids, we participated in a robotics program! They learned about real life robotics and were introduced to LEGO Mindstorm. Students had to work in teams to program robots through different challenges!
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Thank you to our CAP volunteers, Linda and Jim Pugh! They came out the classroom to present to us on various livestock that are raised in the area and the different crops that are grown. We were even tasked with making our own edible soil from graham cracker crumbs, coconut, chocolate pudding, gummy worms and jellybeans. What a fun treat!
Thank you Dana Mitchell and Kensey Spornitz for inviting our class to visit and learn about this year's 4H Achievement Day, hosted in Edgerton. We learned about what being a 4H member involves AND got to see some fellow Eagle 4H members compete and share their projects!
One of our field trips this year was to Bodo. We were able to extend our learning about the environment here in ALberta, about the historical importance of studying the land, and about Aboriginal life in the area as the first people to live on the land. We got to have a good look at real bison bones and learned about what they can tell us. Students got to see different artifacts like rock and pottery that the centre has found over the years. They got to try their hand at uncovering artifacts like the above and bone and petrified wood, in a makeshift dig site. After lunch, we got to try our hand at throwing a traditional hunting spear. We then took a trip out to the fields where students got to see a dig site in progress and hear stories of cool finds like skulls! We even got to try our hand at surveying, and found many real artifacts peeking the surface of the land.
Can you tell which leaves are real and which are drawn with the best of efforts after some study?
During our unit on plant growth and changes, students learned a little about common edges and shapes of leaves. If you thought a few were real, you'd be wrong! All of these were carefully drawn by our students! They needed to make the best, most realistic replica of a leaf and then describe it's shape and edge. Well done! We took on the challenge on learning about the art of making dreamcatchers! Students learned that dreamcatchers are meant as a gift to others with the purpose of expelling bad dreams. They had to think of a special individual and put those positive thoughts into their efforts of making the dreamcatcher. Students worked very hard to learn this skill and appreciate the meaning it has for Aboriginal culture.
Students were then given the task of making some trades at a Trading Post, thinking like a settler and creating a kind of shopping list to get what they needed in the new territory.
We got a visit from the Wainwright RCMP school liaison worker, Devery. She helped us navigate scenarios related to social media. Our world has changed quite a bit and bullying and strangers don't just exist out in the community face-to-face. It creates a challenge for students and adults. What are the parameters of different apps? Why are their age limits for them? How do we keep our tech. time positive? Of course it may be easy to listen and make hypothetical choices...now we have to trust our students and children to make positive choices for themselves and others when online.
Thank you Devery for bringing this to light and pushing our students to think about how their actions online, or those of others online, can affect. William Morris was a designer in the 1800s, who moved in reverse - while the world was becoming more industrialized with factories and worrying about efficiency, he developed the term 'craft' to mean a skill in producing work that passion has been put into. Students were able to research and practice some of his interesting designs, all having to do with nature and animals. They were tasked with creating their own William Morris inspired piece of artwork and create a descriptive paragraph about William Morris and their own art project.
The fertilizer must be good stuff...the kid's sunflowers are really growing!
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