This video https://twitter.com/DeniseKuehner/status/1212118063371431936 shows an activity we did in Kindergarten. The students used beads that change color in sunlight, and built shelters to protect them from the sun. Thanks Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook for inspiring me to make and share the video.
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm-whYMy7bo describes a first grade lesson I call Astronaut Training. The students learn to train like Oradell’s astronaut Wally Schirra. I shared it with a group called the Space Foundation Teacher Liaisons. They also asked me to make a tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBognvJ7LE&t=1s showing how I made the lesson video. Thanks to the Space Foundation for inspiring me to make the video and to my intern Angelica for teaching me how to record and edit it.
In the lab, Kindergarteners have been using large and small pushes and pulls to make things move. First graders are learning how the parts of living things help them survive. We’re testing to see if plants really need light by putting some in a dark box. Second graders are modelling earth changes like earthquakes and volcanoes. Third graders have been using magnetic forces. Fourth graders know have waves transfer energy, and used their knowledge to operate Ozobot and Sphero robots. Fifth graders are continuing to learn about our solar system and constellations. Sixth graders are starting a unit on forces by observing the differences between mass and weight. If you ask your student, maybe they will share something with you that they did recently in the Science Lab.