Museum Exhibit, Regions, and Rainbows

Museum Exhibit Project:

In this activity, students worked together in teams to use evidence, including patterns in rock layers and locations of features on Earth, to explain that landscapes and Earth change over long periods of time.

We used picture cards and a Smithsonian Institute global map to sort and analyze the patterns.

When we were done, we created an exhibit to showcase our findings.

Buddies!

It was a beautiful day for a beautiful day!

We took some time for a morning break on the playground.

Last week's Grit and Kindness Award Winners!

Region Research:

Students are introduced to the five regions of the United States and begin investigating each region’s characteristics, including natural resources, climate, geographic features, and agricultural products. They consider how humans interact with and depend on their environment. Then, students compare regions to determine what makes each region unique.

We presented our posters for the five different regions in the United States.

In our presentations, we included information on large cities, agriculture, climate, places to visit, recreational land uses, and the states included.

We began our research for our state projects!

Ask your 4th grader what state he/she picked.

In math, we played some different games to help reinforce multiplication and to see how it is related to division.

We played a dice game that introduced parenthesis and area.

We rolled four dice and had to figure out the best combination to "cover the field."

Our formula was (__ + __) x (__ + __). 

Once we couldn't cover the field, we figured out who covered the most area to determine the winner!

For share something great, we had a student share something that he is learning how to do with the class!