Middle school students traveled to Northern Michigan for a three day field trip. Students visited several areas of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park and later conducted experiments with sand and water tension. We spend two nights in a lodge at the Traverse City State Park and enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather when we swam in Lake Michigan and enjoyed games, bonfires, s’mores and other team building activities. The highlight of our trip was when students conducted authentic research and investigated the ecology of the Great Lakes as well as learned a little bit about how to sail schooner Inland Seas. Students followed this activity up by building and testing underwater remote controlled vehicles on board the Utopia at Discovery Pier in Traverse City. Our trip wrapped up with a visit to the local farmers market, putt-putt and a stop at a favorite local diner before returning home.
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A huge THANK YOU to MR. Gamache for building our movable Lego Wall. The kids love it. Pretty soon we will be introducing another activity on our wall...stay tuned.
The fourth graders enjoyed exploring several of our new STEM puzzles and brain teasers. They used challenge cards to build and expand the 3D puzzles and Wedgits materials that we have added to our Makerspace.
Our middle school students are collaborating with STEM, Social Studies, Language Arts and Art to make a giant tree for their classroom which will tie into many areas of study this year. They helped imagine a design that Mr. Gamache was kind enough to build and bring for the students to begin working on. Students learned how to make their own paper mache paste and are learning the best techniques to using the medium. More to come as the project progresses... |
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