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With this blog I hope to chronicle what we are doing in class to keep you up to date on our discoveries!
On Friday, students were assigned an out of class mini project dealing with the simple machines we have learned about. In short, students will design a compound machine that incorporates all six of the simple machines we have studied to complete a task. I am including the explanation and rubric students received below, as well as a few of the Rube Goldberg machine videos we watched in class. While the design due on Thursday does not need to be this elaborate, each of these videos provide great ideas!
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Today we both started an finished our notes for simple machines. Students now have ALL of the information they will need to do well on the test next Wednesday. We will continue with machines, but there will be no additional notes for this upcoming test. Students also got a glimpse of the project they will be assigned tomorrow.
We had some really awesome posters presented to help the kids learn about the six different simple machines. Each group presented one simple machine and learned about the other five from their peers. Check out the posters below! Yesterday, students were grouped in six different groups and were tasked with learning about ONE of the six different simple machines by reading and researching texts related to that simple machine. Today students are working hard to create a learning poster they will share with their peers next Wednesday to help teach the rest of their class what they learned about their simple machine. Look for pictures of these fabulous posters in upcoming posts! This week we are continuing to learn about machines by incorporating mechanical advantage and mechanical efficiency. Tomorrow students will begin an in class group project called a jigsaw where they learn in depth about one of the six simple machines and then they teach the other students in their class what they have learned.
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AuthorI am an 8th grade Science teacher in Leeds, Alabama. This is my fourth year teaching science. As a teacher, I would love nothing more than to teach my kids to question the world around them and to never stop learning. Archives
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