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Students compared and contrasted animal senses to human senses by watching several videos. Students also read passages about animal and human senses. Students then completed the SOS strategy (get VENN-y) with a VENN diagram where they listed the similarities and differences between animal senses and human senses.

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Students have been creating their own ways of tracking weather. They work in small groups to explore the most accurate and efficient way to track weather patterns. Students compare their strategies with other groups and collaborate how they can incorporate pieces into their own strategy.

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We have done several hands on measurement activities in our room. Students created their own rulers using a standard unit of measurement.

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Students learned how engineers construct buildings to withstand earthquakes by constructing their own buildings made out of toothpicks and marshmallows. The structures were then put to test to see if they were earth-quake proof. To do this, the structures were placed in a pan of jello to simulate an earthquake.

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https://google.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/8DE19C45-E22D-62AD-D283-D0F37B8E1940

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Students researched the differences and similarities of traits and characteristics between parent animals and their offspring. In pairs, the students created Chatterpix using the Chatterpix app with their animal and spoke a fact.

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We began our unit on weather. The students had to decide which weather condition was most extreme and give reasons why.

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We began our unit on weather. The students had to decide which weather condition was most extreme and give reasons why.

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Students explored with pushes and pulls on the school playground. They pushed and pulled classmates on the swings and discussed how friction slowed them down on the slides. We also experimented with different strength forces when kicking balls across the field to their classmates. The Silence is Golden strategy was used with a Discovery Ed video clip to engage students in conversation about pushes and pulls. Students then worked with their 5th grade reading buddies to complete a worksheet about pushes and pulls and then built contraptions experimenting with the force of gravity and friction. The contraptions consisted of various blocks, dowel rods, toilet paper tubes, marbles and ping pong balls.

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After watching several videos to demonstrate the effects of weathering and erosion, 4th grade students were challenged to design a prevention system to reduce erosion around falling houses in California.  Materials used were a cereal box, toilet paper rolls, string, pipe cleaners, wax paper, and straws.  The students then tested out their systems using a spray bottle to represent rain, a fan to represent wind, and ice to represent hail.  Students then reflected on what worked well with their prevention system and what they could have done better next time.

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In my class we have been talking about choosing materials for a purpose.  We put this into action by building spider webs with the intent of catching plastic bugs.  Students got to choose the materials they thought would work the best.  Before we started our planning, students watched a video clip of real spiders constructing a web.

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https://app.discoveryeducation.com/builders/boards/assetGuid/B5E32591-AAB9-B3EF-DE1C-3A3E3E12B6C7

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Artifacts: Please provide at least 1 artifact after each of the PD training sessions over the course of the year--more is even better!

Include the context and explanation of each artifact.

Examples of Artifacts: 1.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YrrykBVK3AqSjwp9-zLBD7t3xvNzrU-ui47kASRPkCI/edit?usp=sharing 2.padlet.com/kristinaspencer/GRIGGS (Read about their SHINE Academy, and click on the links to the other two Padlets they've included.)

Artifact Description and Expectations https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uRVd3LLGDiB1K5SrHv0rHPR7X7u619IwAX9zJI9I1MU/edit?usp=sharing