The new greenhouse

Check out my great find at my local Big Lots store… I was able to get this greenhouse for $30! It has four shelves and doubled our growing space! I let a teacher down the hall borrow my two shelf model so she could grow some plants of her own. There was also a walk [...]

Garden Monsters!

One of the sessions I was able to stand outside the doors of at NSTA this year was about gardening with children (or something to that effect). I can’t remember the presenters name right now, but I’ll try to find it and come back and add it.  The room was PACKED and I got there [...]

Fabric

As part of our text book adoption in Science this year we are looking into some of the kits that are available.  I am using one right now in my classroom that is all about Fabric.  To be honest, at first I didn’t think my kiddos would be so excited about fabric–but the LOVE it [...]

Bubbles

During our last week of school, we explored bubbles so that we could have some fun with them during our Science Stretch Day (the last Friday in May).  Here are a few pictures of our explorations: We read the book titled Bubble, Bubble by Mercer Mayer.  In this story bubbles come out in all sorts [...]

Clouds

After we got over our fascination with worms, someone else mentioned clouds and so this last week, we’ve spent looking at the clouds.  One of the first misconceptions they had was that clouds were air/wind.  So we did some experiments to determine that clouds are not in fact air or made up of air: I [...]

Insects

All this week, we have been learning about insects.  This was a new unit to me (I usually teach about them as they come up in stories or during teachable moments).  I really could have done lots more with this idea than I did, but I was sort of pressed for time.  I will probably [...]

Ponds Available for Purchase

Nothing like waiting until the final hours of Spring Break to get all my projects finished!!!  I just completed work on my newest unit that is available for purchase: Ponds!! The unit includes: – An Inquiry Based Pond Unit based around the 5E model -A Literacy Work Stations Grid so you can incorporate your pond [...]

More Ponds

Hi Everyone! I am sorry that I have not posted in what seems to be forever…but duty called and I had to attend NSTA in Philadelphia and I was busy getting ready for that, so everything else seemed to fall by the wayside!  Never fear!! I have some more pond ideas to share with you [...]

IB Ponds

Our district continues to move forward with our IB units.  My team chose to do the Transdisciplinary Theme called “Sharing the Planet”.  We incorporated ponds into it and below are pictures so far from the 7 days of our unit. Our total unit is 4 weeks long, so we’ll be done at the end of [...]

HASTI participants

If you are looking for the information from our HASTI presentation, you’ve come to the right place! General Science Sites: www.thinkgreen.com http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ www.sciencenewsforkids.org http://blogs.indystar.com/falconblog/ www.kidsites.com Snow: www.kristenskindergarten.com Animal Tracks: www.littlegiraffes.com www.bear-tracker.com www.pbskids.org www.dnr.wi.gov LWS Animal tracks Fir Trees: LWS Fir Trees math/science fir trees 5 Senses LWS Planning Sheet Click to find the LWS Planning [...]