4th grade - Our vocabulary word for the day was Goad. Goad means anything that pricks, prods, or urges and it sounds like Toad. The pilgrim of the day was President Jimmy Carter. President Carter was instrumental in getting the president of Egypt (Anwar Sadat) and the prime minister of Israel (Menachem Begin) to sign a peace treaty in the Middle East. The puzzle for today was a logic puzzle. Many of the students love working these types of problems. They are great in teaching students to look for evidence in decision making, as well as deductive reasoning, elimination and problem solving. If you would like to do some more, go to: http://www.puzzles.com/projects/alllogicproblems.html.
We briefly discussed strengths and weaknesses for our affective lesson. The Exploration lesson focused on the understanding that new frontiers may impact advancements in other fields of study. After a short discussion of things we use every day that were developed from space exploration, students built a "space station." As they were building they were also learning about planes/flat surfaces and joints. Together those two items make buildings stronger. The SOS project had us focusing on how ocean currents affect weather in climates that should normally be cool or warm. Students were to look up a city in the encyclopedia and find the warm temperature, cool temperature and the average temperature. We will finish that discussion next week.
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