The Power of Challenge
10/20/2018
“If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.”
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Fourth and fifth graders had the opportunity to meet Ryan Morse, an architect, who also agreed to help our class build their actual science projects. Students pitched their project ideas and visited the actual area where we're going to build the projects to create a vision of what it's going to look like.
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Students learn content from books and asking meaningful questions.
The target standards for this unit:
NGSS 3-PS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
NGSS 3-PS2-2. Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
The target standards for this unit:
NGSS PS4-1. Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
NGSS PS4-4. Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Students learn how to give and receive feedback.
Jessica Graham
Ms. Graham graduated from the University of Alabama with a BS in Early Childhood/Elementary Education, and is currently working on her master's in reading. She enjoys hiking, traveling, arts & crafts, and playing the ukulele.
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