After we finished our plants unit at the beginning of the year, we reflected on one thing we learned.  We recorded and compiled these interesting facts and ideas into our second podcast for this year.   Enjoy.

 

 Episode 16 Plants [2:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is our snack calendar for August and September.

If you do not see the calendar below you can follow the link here.

As a culmination to our Sound kit unit, we made homemade instruments.  I posted more about the project here. Some even played songs on them.  The students really did a great job.  Here are photos of their hard work.

After we finished our plants unit at the beginning of the year, we reflected on one thing we learned.  We recorded and compiled these interesting facts and ideas into our second podcast for this year.   Enjoy.

 

 2008 Episode 2 - What we learned about Plants [7:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We are finishing our unit on sound.  Our final project is to make an instrument.

I sent home this letter and scoring guide to explain the project.

I also sent these examples of homemade instruments.  This site also has ideas for homemade instruments.

Marv Dahmen visited our school earlier this year.   He told us about the most unusual residents of ancient Carl Junction.  Two complete mammoth skeletons were discovered in Carl Junction just after the turn of the 20th century.  They were exibited at the Worlds Fair in St. Louis.  Afterwards they mysteriously disappeared.  Flip through these slides as you listen to Marv tell the tale.

 

 Episode 1 - Mammoths: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We watched our Wisconsin Fast Plants grow through all the stages of its life cycle.  Here is some of what we observed.  We also observed the water transport system of a plant by watching blue water change the color of red and pink flowers.  These can be found in our Photo Gallery.

Here is our Skype conference with Mrs. Sorey’s class in Nags Head, North Carolina.  We had some technical difficulties, but it was only our first ever Skype meeting our class had ever had.  We only managed to record about half of the voice chat, and some of that was hard to hear.  We started with video, but they couldn’t see us.  In the part we didn’t record Mrs. Evanoff said she saw a school of dolphins while driving over the bridge on her way to school!  It was an exciting experience.  We didn’t record much about Earth Day but it was sure fun!

 

 Episode 4- Earth Day skype [0:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Since we are testing on Earth Day, we are going to have our celebration head of time.  On Friday we are going to try having a video chat with a 3rd grade classroom in Nag’s Head, North Carolina.  Mrs. Sorey’s class will hopefully meet up with us virtually on Friday morning.  We will introduce ourselves, chat some about our separate locations, and discuss Earth Day.  The latter part of the chat will hopefully be recorded.

We will post the video recording here as a video podcast, but the audio will also be played during a 24-hour webcastathon on the Ed Tech Talk internet webcast channel.  A webcast is like a live radio show on the internet, it is often recorded and posted later as a podcast.

Wish us luck.

This makes our 3rd podcast. Wow! We finished a hand-on inquiry- based science kit in which we planted Wisconsin Fast Plant seeds and observed them as they grew. The students learned a lot more details about the plants and flowers than ever before. It was a lot of fun and we learned a lot. Listen to find out the most important thing each student says they learned.

Music: ninefurseiben by .22 on their album Screw CC downloaded from the Podsafe Music Network

 

 Episode 3 - Our Plant Unit [5:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download