Construction paper wings outline, squares of tissue paper, lamination machine. Done
Pouring Ants
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in 323, animals, STEM Tags: ant farm, ants
Harder than it looks.
Ozobots Race
09 May 2024 Leave a comment
The clip is 4X speed, and shortened, but you get the idea. The Ozobot robots followed the line, circled at the top, and raced to the finish line. It was the students’ first exposure to the robots, and it was very exciting.
Serious Snacking
08 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in 396K, coffee shop Tags: snack
School snack bars are always exciting. This school takes its snacking very, very seriously.
Have Pens, Will Travel
16 May 2022 Leave a comment
in 323, 396K, 3D Printing, bubble wand Tags: 3D Print, 3doodler, bubble wand
I took my “pen and plastics” show on the road, this time to my alma mater, as it were, my “COVID-deployment” school. I am referring to 396K, where I taught science to developmentally-disabled k-4 graders — in person, during the “everyone-else-stayed-at-home” COVID year of 2020-2021.
I was welcomed with open arms and good wishes by the staff and students I knew from the previous year.
Here are students making bubble wands and more.
Monitor Burial Ground
19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in 323, technology Tags: computer monitor
Whereas many explorers traveled over land and sea to find the fabled elephant burial ground, I just had to walk down Chester Street to find the computer monitor burial ground.
Ant Farm, Day 1
21 May 2021 Leave a comment
in 323, animals, science Tags: ant farm, ants
One Busy Ant is taking the lead in clearing out the tunnel. The other ants are chowing down on a piece of pear. And it was evening and it was morning, day 1.
Butterflies Then, Ants Now
21 May 2021 Leave a comment
in 323, animals, science Tags: ant farm, ants
We set up a new Ant Farm (which took about a month to receive). The ants were a little too live coming out of their testtube when I tried to spill them into the farm, so some of them had to be mashed inside… some survivors are missing body parts.
Implicit Bias Training Crash
20 May 2021 Leave a comment
The whole school – and possbly the whole DOE – was obligated to take an online course today. Naturally it crashed the website. Here are some different screen shots of error messages.
Butterfly Life Cycle
27 Apr 2021 1 Comment
in 323, Covid 19, deployment, science Tags: butterfly, caterpillar
This was a fun, four-part activity. First the eggs on a leaf (stickers on foam leaf; then making a foam caterpillar of different colors; then twisting a pipe cleaner to make the pupa/cocoon and taping it to a foam twig; then using highlighters to color in in the butterfly. It took exactly 45 minutes, so yeah.
Occasional Observations of Traveling Technology Coach 