MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 2:01 How do musicians play together as an ensemble?

  2nd Grade musicians and 6th grade musicians both worked at playing various parts of a song as an ensemble today. Check out how each groups interlocking parts work together (and how the musicians change and grow as they gain experience). 

  Uploaded Feb 21, 2023 by Cate Schmittle
• 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
• 3:13 Week 22 of 2022-23|5th - 8th Grade Science

  This week's slideshow highlights: 8th graders continuing to explore molecular structure as part of their "Chemistry of Materials" SEPUP Unit of inquiry; 7th graders practicing the strategy of reciprocal teaching to build anchor knowledge that will be used in subsequent lessons in their "Reproduction" SEPUP inquiry unit; 6th graders investigating the role of convection deep inside the Earth's mantle which led to short skits that they produced and shared with their class as part of their "Geologic Processes" SEPUP inquiry unit; and 5th grade worked in small cooperative groups to read through a skit that included 18th century scientist and statesman Ben Franklin traveling through time to interact with today's climatologists and hydrologists to help explain the role of Earth's warm and cold ocean currents in impacting climates in different regions around the world as part of their "Weather & Climate" SEPUP inquiry unit. Thank you for checking in with us this week:)

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2023 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:29 Our Frida Kahlo Novel

  We are partner, reading, chapter 3 of our novel. We are learning about how people have overcome obstacles and why it’s important to their story.

  Uploaded Feb 17, 2023
• 00:16 Biography Lap book for Black History Month
  Uploaded Feb 16, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:20 The Great Multiplication Scramble

  102 took on the challenge of The Great Multiplication Scramble. Next, they will work with their table groups to complete a life size multiplication chart for our classroom.

  Uploaded Feb 15, 2023 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 2:01 Ancient Empires Board Games

  6th graders playtested one another’s ancient empire games to assess how well board games can be used as a learning tool.

  Uploaded Feb 14, 2023 by Marianne Sharping