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Slime Time Lab

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creating a slime

Paws, Coffee, and Forever Homes

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I wanna talk about the population of abandoment of animals what i would like to propose is to help pick up as many animals as i can and do like a coffee and adopt event every single fridays until we can get as many adopted

Green City Builders Unite

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Grade 2 "Building the Green City of Tomorrow" Each week, students focus on one element of a future city, leading to a final collaborative model. Week 1: Foundations & Design Thinking Focus: Introduction to engineering and the design process. Activity: Spaghetti Tower Challenge. Students work in teams to build the tallest tower using only dry spaghetti and marshmallows to learn about structural stability and geometric shapes like triangles. Art: Sketch initial blueprints for their "Green City". Week 2: Sustainable Energy (Powering the City) Focus: Renewable energy and simple circuits. Activity: Solar Ovens or Circuit Bugs. Students build simple solar ovens to melt s'mores, learning about heat energy, or create "Circuit Bugs" using LED lights and batteries to understand how power flows. Week 3: Transportation & Motion (Moving the City) Focus: Physics, force, and motion. Activity: Balloon-Powered Cars. Students use recycled materials (cardboard, bottle caps, straws) to engineer a vehicle powered by air, exploring thrust and friction. Math: Measure the distance each car travels and graph the results. Week 4: Bridges & Waterways (Connecting the City) Focus: Structural engineering and buoyancy. Activity: Popsicle Stick Bridge Challenge. Students design bridges that can span a gap and support weight. Alternatively, build Recycled Rafts to test buoyancy by seeing how many pennies they can hold. Week 5: Urban Nature & Life Cycles (Greening the City) Focus: Biology and environmental science. Activity: DIY Bird Feeders or Seed Bombs. Students build bird feeders from LEGOs or milk cartons and create seed paper to "green" their model city. Art: Create "Sun Art" (cyanotype prints) using nature found outdoors. Week 6: Culminating Build & Showcase Focus: Integration and presentation. Activity: Final City Construction. Students assemble all their previous projects into one large collaborative city model on a giant cardboard base. Showcase: Host a "City Tour" for parents or other camp groups, where students explain the STEAM principles behind their specific build.

Fourth Grade Journey Jamboree

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4th grade Journey Driving Question: How can you tell the story of your fourth grade journey?

Year in Words: ELA Reflection Journey

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writing a reflective year essay in ela

Manor Makers: Build the Middle Ages

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Students will create a piece of a medieval manor to serve as part of a whole manor being created by the class. Students will build these models in math. In my class, students will chart out and show the significance and connection of their buildings to society and the manor as a whole and how each individual part sontributes to the overall function of the manor, they iwll research sntadnard dimensions and mateirals used to build these stuctures in feet to be used late in math when building scale models of these strucutres. students will have to provide a visual aid interactive museum information card to explain their contribution to the class model of the medeival manor.

Food Web Builders Challenge

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Food chains, food web, engineering Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

Triple Beast Habitat Mash-Up

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Create a creature, based on a mix of three current animals, and the environment they live, while being able to identify the structures and functions. Included in this is behavioral traits, and adaptations.

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