Last week our UTES Little Longhorn 4th and 5th graders were the first elementary school students to see the documentary movie on energy, Switch, by Dr. Scott Tinker. http://www.switchenergyproject.com/screenings.html. This was a terrific culmination of 5th grade science and social studies units on energy and natural resources, and economics driven by supply and demand. Not only [...]
Please visit our kidblogs! http://kidblog.org/LittleLonghorn5thGrade2012/meledbetter/dear-fifth-graders/ I’ve written a letter to our students and their blogs about school are a hoot! Have a great summer, ml
A brilliant idea that I found on Pinterest from Math-N-Spire (http://www.mathnspire.net/2011/09/coordinate-graphing-math-lab-centers.html), inspired this Geography They Can’t Get Enough Of activity. In the last few days of school before summer break and moving on to middle school, how do you motivate 5th graders to read maps, find and use latitude and longitude, explore continents, and create their own maps? Take a [...]
Thanks to the our Dell Technology grant, and a host of technology experts who have shared their expertise, our fifth graders are officially Techies. Projects that our Little Longhorn students are working on include: Digital stories using their own Bio-Poems, Power Point Presentations on Energy sources for science, Apps4Good educational games for younger classes here [...]