Digital Literacy - "The Trial of Freddie Fungus"

Students used the PLAY "The Trial of Freddie Fungus" to learn about the basic characteristics of the pathogen - FUNGI!

In collaborating with a Language Arts teacher, I was made aware that the uses of similies, metaphors, and personification have been taught in the ELA classes.  BOOM ... COLLABORATION! :)

What do you think of our actors and actresses?  More importantly ... what did you learn about FUNGI?

LAB - Bacteria Where?!? Bacteria EVERYWHERE!

A tad behind ... but we're back!  Students through all six classes were able to test for bacterial growth from the following four locations.

1.  Door Knob
2.  Mouth (under tongue)
3.  Desktop
4.  Bottom of Shoe

Angie Doty and Daniela Pineda-Ramos counting for bacterial colonies!

After about a week of incubation, students were able to see large bacterial colonies form.  They counted the number of colonies and were able to hypothesize why they should wash their shoes :).

So ... why do you think the "Bottom of Shoe" seemed to have the most bacterial growth.

What property of water am I?

8.E.1.1 - Can you explain the picture?

These students used their arms to symbolize the water cycle. Evaporation, condensation and precipitation at their tables. They then walked to the center and touched shoulders. Crazy! They turned the classroom into a...?

Use these words to describe. Watershed, Cohesion, Runoff.

Watersheds...In your journal?

Ok Ok :).  The picture doesn't quite show the educational benefits of this activity.  The contours of the paper allowed us to figure out that water obeys gravity!  Every single student created their own watershed.  By doing so, we were able to combine all of them into the picture you see above.  It is a crude outline of the state of North Carolina.  You folks did a great job figuring out that certain areas of North Carolina can only get water from certain areas!  We live in the Yadkin/Pee-Dee Watershed/River Basin, but there are 15 other river basins as well.

Great job!!!

EDMODO - In effect!!!

Great job A and B days!  We have our classes online and working through EDMODO :).  Be prepared for upcoming alerts, assignments and other interesting things that will allow us to work socially through our curriculum!

While you're here though ... take a moment to POST your thoughts on EDMODO.  What are some positives/strengths that you're excited about using in the future?  What ways would you like to see EDMODO used in our classroom?

Guest Speaker - Southern Energy Management (10.26.12)

What better way to learn about 8.P.2 of our Essential Standards than from an expert! Ms. Allison Arpin did a wonderful job showing us examples of current Solar Energy products and ways to make the school more energy efficient. Hopefully you learned a few ways to conserve at your home :-).

Can you name one you have put into practice?