Lewis and Clark Learns

  Our annual hot cocoa party was a great success.  HUGE thanks to Mrs. Haynes for keeping our cocoa bar running smoothly all afternoon for our readers.

So many great games are in the works!

I really have been taking a lot of photos of what has been happening in the library lately, but have obviously not done anything with them!  So here is a visual update of what we have working on... Stop Motion Animation  [Fourth Grade] 1.  Question and Research 2.  Watch and Learn from Stop Motion examples 3.  Learn from an Expert 4.  Practice and more Practice 5.  Select choice of Materials-Paper, Lego, Toys 6.  Plan and Develop a Storyboard 7.   Practice and more Practice 8.  Peer Evaluation 9. Final Production  10.  Reflect Rube Goldberg Building  [Fifth Grade] 1.  Question and Research 2.  Watch MANY Examples 3.  Design and Plan 4. Build and Test [Again and Again and Again] 5. Share 6.  Reflect  Page Turner Book Club continues to meet every Wednesday morning to simply read. Prep For Visiting Author /Illustrator Henry Cole ...

Working our way through the Design Thinking LAUNCH Cycle to build Rube Goldberg Machines. L ook, Listen, and Learn: Read about the man and the machines.  Watch many, many examples.  A sk Questions:   Ask and answer questions through the inquiry process U nderstand:  Looking at our Rube Goldberg guidelines, requirements, and task. N avigate Ideas:   Begin planning and designing our machines. C reate a Prototype:   Begin constructing based on our ideas. H ighlight and Fix: Fix what is not working. Launch To The World! Rube Goldberg:  A complicated a machine that  completes a simple task.   The photos below show my students in the Navigating stage of the LAUNCH Cycle.  Each group plans a little differently.  Some got right to work drawing and sketching ideas, others started listing step-by-step descriptions of what would happen in their machine, some simply talked things out and had nothing on their paper, o...

[Stations-Choice-Play-Creativity-Friends-Freedom-Make] Finger Knitting Model Magic Creations Watercolor Bookmarks Open MakerSpace Cubelets Ozobots

This is always an exciting day!  After spending several weeks researching, planning, building, testing, failing, rebuilding, and testing again, we were ready to launch.  Each team or individual gets one practice launch and two official launches. Our launches varied from a few inches to 18 feet.  Following the launch we always embark on reflection and learning from the process.