Students have been very busy in science class at Rohan Woods….
JK
- Read Kitchen Chemistry Kal and made ice cream to observe (and taste!) a chemical reaction
- Read Lindy Light and created shadow puppets to experiment with light
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
SK
- Experimented with forces and motion including pushes and pulls
- Experimented to see whether the slope of a ramp will cause an object to travel farther/less far
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
1st
- Completed soil scroll/visual representation of the layers of soil and the animals that live in them
- Studied animal life cycles and acted out the life cycle of a honeybee
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
- Discussed toys that you have to pull to get to push and experimented with catapults
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
2nd
- Worked in the native prairie habitat
- Went on field trip to the zoo to study/observe/photograph/video the animals they have studied for their biome project
- Worked on creating their biome iMovies on the iPad
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
3rd
- Continued to work on land and water interactions in their stream tables
- Experimented with rushing rivers and flow, how land changes the direction and flow of water, and how dams work
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
4th
- Continued to work with the "Scratch" computer coding program from MIT
- Created programs using only 10 different commands, a program that was about themselves called "All About Me", and worked to problem solve and trouble shoot different bugs in different programs
- Worked to raise money for their fall 2017 trip by putting on "Movie Night" for Grades EC-3rd
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
Middle School
- Started unit on simple machines
- Learned about and experimented with kinetic and potential energy, energy transfer, the law of conservation of energy, and friction
- Worked to raise money for their fall 2017 trip by putting on "Movie Night" for Grades EC-3rd
- Learned about the most common birds around Rohan Woods and went outside to bird watch and count number/kind sightings as part of the "Great Backyard Bird Count"
Middle School Health
- Worked on learning the nutrients our body needs and what they do for us
Garden
- 2nd Grade put down cardboard and mulch to kill the grass for the addition to the native prairie
- 2nd Grade did a "seed stomp" to add plants to our existing native prairie
- 2nd Grade winterized seeds collected from the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center