Thursday, January 8, 2015

Fun with fractions and matter

Fractions
As you know, we have been pretty cooped up this week with indoor recess. Our math lessons gave us an opportunity to time 'one-way trips' and then double them for 'round-trip' data. To make the most of this, we took trips around the school and timed it. The bonus to this was converting minutes and seconds into seconds and then halving and doubling the time and then converting it back to minutes and seconds. Our students are super smart!


Matter
We are working with the states of matter this week. We began by building an anchor chart and then listening to books and videos about solids, liquids, and gases. Some of our students conducted research on a fourth state of matter: plasma. On Tuesday, we used shaving cream to determine how adding heat can change something from a solid or liquid into a gas.


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