3rd Grade - Students learned that Prospect means the possibility that something that will happen in the future and Demand means the ability and need or desire to buy goods and services. Students learned that James Earl Jones, a well known actor, stuttered as a child. A logic elimination puzzle was solved for the warm up activity. The affective lesson focused on historical gifts we have in the United States in particular The Star Spangled Banner. Students then completed math problems about the flag. In Crystal Pond Woods, students were given the opportunity to use divergent thinking to solve the problem of the Great Paper Tower Building contest. Each team was given three 9 x 12 sheets of construction paper and approximately 36 inches of tape from which they had to construct a structure that would hold a set of encyclopedias.
5th Grade - Today's vocabulary word was Soporific which means sleep inducing. Their explorer, Thomas Alva Edison, not only invented the electric light bulb but several other useful items as well. These students also completed the What in the World puzzle for the warm up activity. The affective lesson focused on how students would react in different situations. The final activities were to finish up the E.coli presentations and continue developing their Exploravision projects.
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