Monday, December 5, 2016

Anchor activity for the Science and Engineering Fair

We used paper helicopters as an anchor activity in class to discuss the key parts of a scientific investigation.  The question we investigated was, "how does the length of a paper helicopter's blade affect the number of rotations?"  Because the rotations occurred too fast for students' eyes, we used the resources available to us.  This student captured the helicopter's spin on video and used iMovie to slow it down.  Very neat stuff!

Ecosystem Projects

We spent the past 2 weeks working on ecosystem projects.  Here are a few samples of what students did...
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3