Grade 5s began their learning about Energy Conservation and the 6s about Electricity. If you're a Grade 6 parent, just scroll through! The Grade 6 information is below the Grade 5. GRADE 5: We began our week with an awesome exploration outside of all the different forms of energy we're learning about. You might like to go over these energy vocabulary cards with your kids at home. Students are learning to recognize forms of energy in their communities. Feel free to continue exploration at home by discussing what forms of energy you see, hear, and feel around your house. We're discussing energy conservation, and learning about energy transformations. Today, we're reading a First Nations legend, called "Manabozho et les érables", with a moral of caring for the environment and not taking what we have for granted. When we begin our eight Science centres next week (these will be posted in Google Classroom on Monday), students will be exploring energy in various ways: an inquiry, matching cards, an Ozobot challenge, reading, using a wattmetre to test energy in the school, and MUCH more. This will all prepare them for their big Rube Goldberg building project to come after our centres. If you don't know who Rube Goldberg was, I suggest you check him out! He's the ultimate chain reaction machine master. We watched this music video of a "Rube Goldberg" style machine by a band called OkGo (who often infuses their music videos with Science). GRADE 6: In grade 6, we're learning all about electricity. On day one, before digging into any electricity, we got together and baked bread in a really old fashioned way... we spent time measuring, mixing (forever), kneading the bread, watching it rise, kneading it again, watching it rise, and finally rolling it into buns for baking. We are learning how electricity makes our lives so much easier. Next, we switched back to high-tech! Students got to explore parallel and series circuits with our fabulous electricity kit. They got to use: batteries, alligator clips, motors, fans, lightbulbs, and switches. You might like to review this vocabulary at home with your child. Check out some of the circuit creation below!
Students took apart our clocks (the entire upstairs hall was without a clock for a few hours... woops!!) and rewired them, adding switches, lights and fans. You can review series and parallel circuits at home with the images below. This will help your child when we begin our Science centres next week. After that.... who knows what is next! ;) We will be building SOMETHING electric!
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