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• 00:29 Women in STEM Projects Gallery Walk- 4th grade Featured

  Students created projects from posters to comics to slide decks about different important women in STEM such as Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper or Sylvia Earle. Then students had a chance to display their work for their classmates and their classmates moved around the room and gave them constructive feedback in the terms of Glow (somethings they did well) and Grow (some things they can improve.

  Uploaded Mar 18, 2023
• 00:18 3rd grade moving block lab Featured

  Students were given a series of materials and came up with creative ways to make wood blocks move to help them begin to think about force and motion that will be the focus of our new unit
  

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:50 4th grade Simple Systems Lab Featured

  Students created their own simple systems using solar panels, alligator clips, a motor and fan and a light source to make the fan turn.
  

  Uploaded Mar 12, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:44 Science 4th Grade Vision and Light Models Featured

  Students have been working throughout this unit to understand how animal vision works and this week they started creating their models to show their understanding and explain the process through which animals see and light moves from a source to the brain.

  Uploaded Feb 19, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:13 4th grade Valentine's Day Placemats Featured

  Students created Valentine’s day placemats and they were delivered to a nearby senior center to bring some good cheer!

  Uploaded Feb 19, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:02 4th grade Chicago History Field Trip Featured

  Students went on a field trip to the Chicago History Museum to be a part of their special City on Fire Enhanced Field Trip. Students heard from live actors about two famous Chicagoans, Joseph and Anna Elizabeth Hudlin, who both played pivotal roles in helping Chicago recover from the Chicago Fire. Students also got to meet Chicago comic Victor Dandridge, who showed them how the medium of a simple thing like folded paper can help add layers to a story.

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:13 3rd Science Celery Investigation Featured

  Students created an investigation using celery, food coloring and water to test how inherited traits can be impacted by the environment. In groups, students planned out different experiments to conduct that had only one variable to increase the validity of the results

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 1:22 Winter Beatles Show 3rd and 4th grade Performances Featured

  This week students participated in the fabulous Winter Show based on Beatles numbers. It was fantastic to see our students hard work in action!

  Uploaded Feb 04, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:26 4th Science Jigsaw activity Featured

  Students participated in a jigsaw activity where they started in a base group and chose an animal they wanted to research how its eyes functioned. Each person in the group chose a different animal so later when they reported back everyone could share about a different animal. They researched with another partner how these organisms see and shared with their group what they learned.

  Uploaded Jan 28, 2023 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:26 3rd grade Science Gathering Data- Wolves and Inheriting Traits Featured

  In their unit on Inheritance and traits focused around several wolfpacks, groups reviewed and discussed data from the Wolf Family Data Cards and the informational texts, The Code and The Handbook of Traits and recorded their information on a graphic organizer.

  Uploaded Jan 13, 2023 by Ryan Cherry