The Earth is in OUR Hands

We collaborated with Mrs. Woolever’s 3rd grade class at Cecil Floyd Elementary in Joplin, MO to create Earth Day 2009 newscasts.  They created video newscasts, while we made audio newscasts.  Here are our newscasts.

 Episode 22 Earth Day Webcast [10:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is Earth Day.  Every hour of Earth Day will have a streaming webcast about Earth Day topics called Earthcast.  You can view the stream below.Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV

The final project of our Sound Unit in science was to create a homemade instrument.  Then they had to present it to us.  They had to present:

• How they made it and how it works
• How we hear the sound it makes
• How they change the pitch

They worked really hard on them, and we enjoyed their presentations.  I uploaded these videos to Schooltube, so we can see them here.

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