Gleaning Facebook: Science Fair

Becky Gurley shared this Facebook post with me.

Responses:

Terrell Shaw
You're breaking my heart here! 

I loved the science fair. I'm scheduled to judge two in the next three weeks.

Beckie Gurley
For Sam, this project freaked him out and stressed him out. But next year when Zach gets his project we know what to do and expect.

Bob Doster
We're experiencing this very same thing right now. My grandson is in 6th grade and has just completed one of these.

Beckie Gurley
Zach is actually excited and has already started thinking of things to do. But Zach loves science and history. Anything to do with facts he loves. I think the experience for Zach will be fun. Now Sam had fun doing the project on yellow fever and the native Americans. But the science fair project was hard because he could focus in on one thing.

 

Gleaning Facebook: Medal Stand

OK, this is sorta nutty but...

I want to build medal (not metal, Bob!) stands for our Science Fair awards ceremony at school. As a cheapskate and someone who loves to recycle and reuse, I'm appealing to the online community.

I'll bet among my Rome area Facebook friends there is enough scrap plywood to do this -- and I have a truck. So if you have one or more quarter sheets of sound half-inch plywood (or larger pieces) lying around that you would like to be rid of, I'll come haul it off today for free. I need a total about two sheets to build the three small platforms. It doesn't have to be pretty: it'll be painted. A few scrap two-by-fours would also be appreciated.

So let's see if this social network thing is good for something concrete, uh, wooden. Reply here or message me.

Ruth Baird Shaw There is a little plywood and 2 by 4's here....

Gola Burton Call dad!!!

Gola Burton If no answer. Just go over and go through the barns. He will never miss it.

Terrell Shaw Ha! The Shaw girls would love your comment, Gola!

Bob Doster Gotta laugh! Going to MB's was the first thing on my mind.

One other thing. It's gonna be hard to build metal stands out of plywood. Unless you are stranger that I know.

Terrell Shaw Medal, Bob. Medal! 

Bob Doster Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!

Peggy Fowler-Casillas Or...you could build platforms out of pallets (eliminates some of the framing/support work).

Gleaning Facebook: MSP Conference

 Our Math/Science Partnership group jointly presented (very informally) at the 2011 Georgia Science Teachers Assn Conference last Friday. Here are a few pics.

Space Hats
One of my fellow MSPers showed off her students "Space Hats" Each child designed a wizard's hat that would "teach" a lesson about a part of the Solar System unit.

The leader of our Fourth Grade MSP group was the irrepressible Marlee Tierce.

Here Marlee opens the session. The teacher on the right is looking through our school's Science Fair booklet, which was part of my "Show & Tell".

Wanda Dugger science-teacher/musician and my MSP buddy, showed off the palm pipes we made last summer (and her grandson!)

Moon Pie Phases seems a delicious way to teach that standard!

I'll try the little foldable at lower right reinforce phases of the moon.

I used Sheila's iPad to show off our Science Fair HQ website, and distributed copies of our Science Fair booklet and a page of Science Fair tips from our ten-years of fairs at Armuchee.

Another session I attended was "Science and Storytelling".

The diminutive teller made me a litterer who has been cursed by having his litter specially magnetized to "return to sender".

Here's the teller, a prof at Bainbridge College.

I took lots of pics like this to remind me of activities I want to use. Here an experiment to see the effect of friction on the amount of energy required to move these blocks.

Sunday Seven: Pics from a Month at School

1. The Rewards of School Fundraising (The Penny Drop)

Our class won a Limo ride to the pizza parlor...



The secretary got pied...



and the assistent principal kissed a goat (a three-day-old kid!)



2. Faux-spring Days on the Nature Trail

Tell this little beauty that it's not Spring yet!


Can you find the little lizard, all warm and active?



Or these little lizards burning with Spring Fever?



3. Science Fair

164 projects in all, 84 from my students --
from extracting DNA to attracting wildlife with bobcat urine!





4. Tornado Drill
We take these things seriously here 'bouts.



5. Valentines Day
I was good -- I stayed on the diet and gave all those little heart-shaped boxes away.



6. Recess
One of our environmental studies this year we call "Metatarsal Mayhem": we are studying the effect of foot-traffic on our playground. It is significant.



7. My student teacher with her Show 'n' Tell
I do love to hold babies!




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