Today we continued our conversations about topographic maps as we used water and mountain replicas to help us further our knowledge of how they work. Students were given clear plastic boxes with a replica of a mountain in it. They were asked to add green water to their clear tubs in 1 inch intervals and…
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Students, today we will be working topography maps once again as we practice reading them. Today we will use an online lab activity to study topography. Please click on the link below to visit the website that host the lab that we will be performing today…remember to complete both lab A and B and the…
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Toooooday marked the end of our three day journey through using salt dough to mold and reproduce the six geographical regions of Arkansas. It has been a very busy and messy week for us, but after a long week of molding our maps we finally added color to the activity.Today students were asked to take…
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Big things are happening in my room this week…today we continued our work with salt dough as we got a little hands on today. After letting our dough sit over night, this morning it was ready to mold into the state of Arkansas. Students were asked to take their dough and mold it into the…
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This week I decided to welcome my students back from their weekend by getting a little bit messy. Today we began preparing or salt dough lab that we will be working on for the next few days…but before we preformed our lab we first had to create some salt dough. In the video above, you…
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Listed above in the Wordle, are the review terms that we will be talking about today in science. Mr. McClung
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On Tuesday we continued our talks about maps and map projections by taking a look at some globes…that’s right, today was an old fashioned latitude and longitude scavenger hunt. Students were given a list of coordinates and city names and asked to located them on a map. The cities that students would find during their…
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In class on Monday, we continued with our earth science studies by taking a closer look at oranges…that’s right, oranges and earth science. At the end of the lesson we were left the mess that you see above that was once an orange…let’s talk about how we got to this point. First each group of…
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Today in science we will be discussing how the eyeball is structured and how images and light are transmitted to our brain. Mr. McClung
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After discussing colors and reflections, today we took on the task of bending light…in other words, refractions. Today students used a variety of acrylic shapes and shined light through them to find out what effect each shape had on beams of light. In the picture above this group has a set up that includes shining…
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