Don’t call it a come back…. ….with school starting to wind down, many students have lost their passion for this weekly celebration that we like to call Tie Tuesday ®; but, don’t tell that to Mr. C’s fifth grade class. With the a little help from Mr. C, his entire class is decked out in…

Today in science class we started our discussion about microorganisms by thinking a little bit about bacteria and fungus. I posed a question to my class, “what in our school has the largest amount of bacteria present?” As one would expect, this got pretty gross in a hurry. First let’s discuss our setup. Above is…

For the past couple of days my students have been preparing slideshow presentations about Australian Rules Football. This was inspired by our conversation with Mr. Lamshed the other day. After talking to Mr. Lamshed many of my students were confused by what Australian Football was, so I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to…

After yesterday excitement cockroach lab, we the opportunity today to reflect on yesterday’s discoveries. Today in class we reviewed some key points from yesterday’s lab including, walking, eating, antennas, and stimuli. Below is a video of our discussion from today. After our discussion was over, we took sometime to practice our Cornell Note-Taking. We used…

The day my students have been waiting for since the first day of school…..cockroach lab. Today we continued our discussion about insects by taking a further look at Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. Students took a closer look at these little critters by analyzing characteristics of the roaches. Students were asked to pay particular attention to eating…

After Mr. Lamshed was able to upload our full conversation, I thought i would be appropriate to update my post and re-post it with all the extra ‘goodies’. Today marks a very special day in our classroom. We had our first Skype conversation with Mr. Lamshed of Australia. Mr. Lamshed was kind enough to join…

Recently I was approached by my friend and fellow teacher Mr. Lamshed about participating in a collaberation project. Of course I jumped on board and was eager to begin (despite my late post). This project is a blog that myself, Mr. Lamshed, Mr. C, and several others are all contributors of. Often when it comes…

Today we continued our discussion about insects in preparation for our lab with cockroaches later this week. Students were able to identify insects from non-insects by looking at their characteristics. An insect consists of a head, thorax, abdomen, and six legs. Students were also able to identify different adaptations of insects. The picture above is…

We have a Tie Tuesday Hall of Fame first! Today we are inducing our first female student to the TTHF! Macy is in my homeroom and is always excited when Tie Tuesday rolls around. Macy called claims on her dad’s best tie at the beginning of the semester, and has been wearing it every Tuesday…

Today we began our introduction to insects. We studied the began by studying the basic overview of the make up of an insect. We learned that there are three basic parts that make up all insects Head (the control center of the insect) Thorax (in control of movement) Abdomen (where the guts are stored) In…