Lights ! Camera ! Action! Media and the Message

Students are growing up in a digital age. They are exposed to multiple forms of media from the time they can sit up in a highchair or stroller. It's critical that they understand how media works and how to dissect media in order to understand it's message. The students spent the last several weeks looking and analyzing different types of messages in a variety of visual media. The videos below are their attempt to use media to create a video that would present their personal message in an effective way.

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Hands on Fractions!!

Fractions are a foundational mathematical concept that students need to grasp. In the pictures below we are playing with Cuisenaire Rods. These rods are used to model equal sections that can be used to compare to longer rods. For example, it takes 3 equal white rods to make 1 red rod. Therefore white is 1/3 of red. 

Build it ... And they will Come: Culminating Activity

The grade 4's have been learning all about forces, pulleys and gears. In this culminating activity they are creating a crane that incorporates all the simple machines and forces we have been learning about. Their crane must be able to move a load over an obstacle and gently lower it the the floor.