Introduction to the Wonder of Science
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Warm-Up Quiz
Seminar Discussion
Body Break
See you in 10 minutes.
Review postings from our trip to FWA on the previous day’s slide deck.
Fort Whyte Alive Teaching Resources https://www.fortwhyte.org/educators/
Sustainable Design Egg Drop Challenge
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Take a picture of your egg shuttle and post it on an empty slide below. Please include your name (and your egg shuttle’s name if it has one).
Jersey Clinton
Name: Flight of Hope
Emily Marcial - Emily’s Eggcellent Experiment 🤌
Natalie - Subway Shuttle “Fast Delivery”
Madison T
EGGSHIP
EGGy survived :)
Stevie Kuehl (Flight Risk)
Light Lightening - Anastasia Pindera
Macky, the egg drop extraordinaire
(I don’t think his google eyes are recyclable, they are just to give him some pizaz. Can be removed easily)
Hailey Whitmore-Seckinger
Status: DEAD
MISSION FAILED
Hannah’s Winey Winner Egg Parachute
Eliza!!!! The egg shuttle’s name is zoomy!
Bailey Magnus-Walker- Mighty Molson
Harrison’s Hopeful Hanglider
Abigail’s – Georgina’s Tie of Survival
Chenoa Hay’ll
Jazmin Hartie
Egg: Edward
Sam Julius “to infinity and beyond”
Sustainable Design Egg Drop Challenge
Insert some slides and post any photos you may have taken.
After you have basked in the spectacle of the glorious flights of the egg shuttles, consider the following question in grade groups:
How might you integrate an activity like this one with other subjects?
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Group 1 - Bailey, Anastasia, Matt, Hannah, Emily, Harrison
-Art- Using supplies and decorating
-Social studies- Sustainability, could use resources from the environment
-English- Creating a backstory and character for this egg.
-Phys Ed- If egg lives, you do one activity, if the egg dies, you do another
-Science- Engineering/physics/flight unit
-Shops/woodworking- creating the egg shuttle
-Home ec/Cooking- cook with the eggs after
-Psychology- Social emotional learning, being supportive, helping each other through their grief.
-Drama- could reenact scenes where people fall off cliffs, “Long live the King”-Lion King
-Music- create an original score that plays while we wait to see if egg lived.
Film- Make a short film/documentary with interviews
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Group 2 - Eliza, Sam, Jaz, Maddy, Chenoa
social studies- history of flight
English- story writing about the egg
Read book about eggs
Reflect on egg drop, ie. what would you again? differently?
Indigenous studies, egg goes back to the environment, the soil the egg represents circle, circle of life, lessons in life
Math- Shapes and strength, calculate drop rates, distance (how high its falling)
Ratios: 6/10 survivability
Art:- who can make the most decorative shuttle and survive it
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Group 3 - Abigail, Jersey, Jenaya
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Group 4 - Stevie, Natalie, Hailey
Math- Graphing (How many eggs lived vs dies), time (recording how long it took each egg to fall in milliseconds)
Science- Flight, gravity, engineering, life cycle, sustainability
ELA- Poetry, story writing, personally connect with your egg before sending it to fall. Report/paper on the egg drop.
Social Studies- Mapping the crash landing site.
Health- Empathy
Art- Decorate your egg.
Home Economics- Use the surviving eggs to cook. Don’t be wasteful!
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Group 5 -
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Group 6 -
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Outdoor Exploration
Drawing Leaves
Leaves are fun to draw because they come in so many different shapes and sizes. There are two basic types: simple and compound. Simple leaves have one blade (leaf) to a stem, while compound leaves have several blades (sometimes called leaflets) on a single stem. Within those groups, leaves have an amazing variety of patterns - see how many you can find.
Sharing our Leaf Drawings
After you’ve had a chance to share your leaf drawings, talk about how science and the arts may be integrated in the classroom. What are some specific examples of how you may connect science and arts-based skills?
(Think about your practicum classroom)
Two fine examples from former pre-service teachers/artists
For next time:
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