Student Example Video

Here is another example of one of our demonstrations performed by one of our 6th grade learners! Great job!

Observation and Inference Lab - Station Review and Directions

This video will remind you of what to do at each of the stations in our Observation and Inference Lab:

Demo Day!

NOTICE!!!! Weather permitting, we will be outside tomorrow! Baseline tracking box videos are below!

As we continue to explore the difference between observations and inferences, we spent today observing various demonstrations.

We also have our first of many daily updates from one of our students.

Below, are various versions of the demonstrations that we witnessed today in class. Each demonstration had various scientific elements as the cause. It was not our goal to come up with these solutions today, but to work through making inferences based on our current knowledge and our observations.

I would love for families to watch these demonstrations again and begin to help discover the underlying causes behind each.

On that note...I NEED EXPERTS!!! If anyone reading this would like to post an explanation of why each event happened, please add a comment to this post with your explanation or better yet, a link to a video explanation.

Here is a sample of our work today: (This is a YouTube playlist. You should be able to view all videos by scrolling through the list and clicking.)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr7OGOrOGxoQN3mcwyjbOVLBzFagIkarq

Tracking Box information...

We will be observing our tracking boxes on block days (Wed/Thurs) this week.

Below, you will find the "baseline" video for each box.

Meadow Tracking Box

Well Tracking Box

Day 2 Updates!

What an amazing two days!

As we continue to look at scientific ways of thinking, we will really begin to focus on observations and recordings.

Today, we reintroduced observation skills with a little "magic" trick. I am by no means a great magician, but it is still fun to watch...

IMPORTANT!..IMPORTANT!...IMPORTANT!...IMPORTANT!...IMPORTANT!...IMPORTANT!

On block day this week, we will be going outside to Swickard Woods. It might be a good idea to wear/bring long socks or boots to class!

Diving deeper in to observation and recording, we (Mrs. Willmore and I) have set up 2 tracking boxes in the woods. I baited these boxes with peanut butter this afternoon and we hope to attract some animal traffic.

Take a look at the boxes this afternoon...

Tracking Box #1

Meadow Habitat

Tracking Box #2

Edge Habitat

 

It will be great to see what visits over night!