Grade 2 - Dinosaurs

We are traveling back in time & meeting some interesting reptiles of the past...
Microraptor - one of the smallest meat-eating dinosaurs (3 feet long). They were feathered and could glide.

Yutyrannus - a 30 foot long feathered dinosaur

Styracosaurus - 6 feet tall, 18 feet long! Plant - eater.

Apatosaurus - 75 feet long,15 feet tall plant - eater.

Corythosaurus - 30 feet long, 7 feet tall, duck- billed plant-eater

Stegosaurus - 30 feet long, 9 feet tall plant- eater, stegosaurus had been extinct for 80 million years before T.Rex came along!

Ankylosaurus - 20 feet long, 6 feet tall armored dinosaur with a club-like tail

Grade 3 - Technology in the Classroom

We have been having so much fun learning about the solar system in 3rd grade! I used my classroom green screen:

 to put everyone in a different location in space. All students wrote their own scripts, which had to include facts about their location. They also created their own artwork (seen in each video)!  This was such a fun way to integrate technology into the classroom! The videos came out great and everyone loved seeing themselves in space!

First Grade Engineers! Bridge Building

I am so proud of my first grade engineers! I presented them with a story I wrote about gnomes trying to solve a big problem: they must get from their village into town in order to sell their vegetables. There is a large lake separating the village & town.  Engineers are needed to design & build bridges for the gnomes. I wrote this lesson plan to meet the NGSS engineering standard for first grade:

Before we began designing & building, we examined the structure of many well known bridges to determine what each bridge had to have:

Everyone's favorite bridge seemed to be Tower Bridge:

Everyone made a fantastic bridge! All bridges had to meet 2 important criteria: the bridge must span the lake and it must be able to accomodate 2 gnomes at a time. I used my classroom green screen to put grade 1C into gnomeland:

The first graders worked so hard on their bridges! I love seeing their fantastic creations!! Here are photos of grade 1C's bridges, they finished today. I will post grade 1Q as soon as their bridges are complete!

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