HOLIDAYS ACROSS AMERICA

4K was lucky enough to connect with classrooms across America by sharing holiday cards. The theme was to share our holiday traditions. We worked together to create, decorate, write, and address our holiday card for 29 other classrooms. Some of the states we sent cards to are Wisconsin, New Jersey, California, Texas and Iowa and many others. Here is a link to the full project explanation.  We will be doing a mystery skype with one of these classrooms soon.

HONORING VETERANS IN 4K

They made streamers with red and blue stars on them. They made patriotic paper chains. They created posters and flags. They cleaned and straightened up the room. Why? The students of 4K wanted to let the veterans who were coming to visit our class that they respected their service. Everyone wanted to make the veterans feel how much of an honor we thought it was to have them come to our school, so they all worked as a team to create a patriotic place!

RENEWABLE VERSUS NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES!

Change Is Simple made their first visit to fourth graders at Proctor School  The focus was on renewable and non-renewable resources. Students in 4K got the chance to be engineers for the day. First, groups got to build their own wind turbines that actually created electricity to light up an LED light bulb. We also got to test solar panels in different conditions to measure how much electricity was being generated.
We learned that non-renewable means things that can not be re used, but renewable can be. Renewable resources are sun, wind and water. Non-renewable resources are coal, oil and natural gas. These create pollution too.

HOUSE OF CARDS

The challenge given was to build a freestanding house of cards with only 12 inches of tape and as many index cards as you want in 10 minutes. We persisted and engineered and here are the results....

"EGGS"CELLENT EGG DROP!

The students of 4K were biomechanical engineers for the day! The problem they had to solve was how to protect an egg dropped from 2 meters. They planned, designed, constructed and tested their containers made to  reduce the impact of the collision. This activity put into use our study of transfer of energy, collisions, momentum and and contact force. 

Egg Drop 1

Egg Drop 2

Egg Drop 3

Did They Survive?