STEAM+Workshop


 * Jelly Toast Modeling **
 * Visual Thinking Strategies
 * Activity adapted from the book //Why Does Toast Fall Jelly Side Down?: Zen and the Art of Physics Demonstrations// by Robert Ehrlich

Nature Modeling




 * Kinesthetic Movement Activities **
 * 8 count shake out
 * Biggest Fan: Rock, Paper Scissors
 * Red Ball (Bread Bowl, Red Bull)
 * Charades Telephone



Commonalities among the practices in Science, Mathematics, and ELA



Design Process
|| ** Scientific Method ** ||
 * ** Engineering Design Process **
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Circuits

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The proceeding activity is from TES Connect - Series Circuit Investigation

A circuit is marked out around the classroom. One pupil will act as the battery and one as the bulb. They stand at opposite ends of the classroom. The others are the electrons in the circuit and they stand spread out around the circuit. The teacher starts the flow by announcing that the switch is down. The pupils start walking around the circuit. As they pass by the battery the battery gives them some energy and they show that they have this energy by placing their hands in front as holding a package. When they get to the bulb they hand the package over and the bulb waves his/her hands in the air to show being lit.

As this is happening the teacher can discuss the fact that the amount of current is not changing in the circuit I.e. current is not being used up but energy is. The direction on the current can also be discussed – it it flowing from positive terminal to negative or vice versa? Why are the electrons flowing (relate this to what they learnt in lastles son – the electrons are flowing because they are attracted to the positive terminal). The teacher can then stop the flow by announcing that the switch has been lifted.

The teacher can then describe how a current is needed for energy to flow – in a broken circuit there is no current and so the bulb will not light up.

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 * Circuit Construction Kit (AC+DC), Virtual Lab

Computer Science -- model inputs and outputs of the circuit

Check out this image from Britannica.com @http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/130675/computer-science/21945/Logic-design-and-integrated-circuits Boolean Logic

Circuit Poems

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Simple Circuit Card