May 11 – 15 (week 35)
This week we went on some new and exciting
endeavors…
Switching
roles
Last week as we finished up our severe Weather
research we were able to present our findings to Ms. Layman’s class. Well this
past week, Ms. Layman’s class wanted us to serve as their audience so that they
could present their findings to us. They did such a fantastic job and the kids
learned so much! They were by far the best audience I’ve ever seen!
Collecting
Data
The students worked extremely hard this week to collect
data from multiples sources and for multiple reasons. First the students
created questions to poll the class. Some included: what is your favorite
color; what is your favorite pet; do you have any pets. Once they collected
their data they experimented with different graphs to represent their data and
to display to their classmates.
Being that our kids are infatuated with tattoos,
we decided to use that interest to drive our learning. We polled the school in
order to get their opinion on tattoos. We first collected data to see which
Windsor teachers had a tattoo. We graphed this information in the form of a bar
graph. We also polled the teachers to see if they thought that teacher should
be able to have tattoos and why or why not. We received some interesting
responses, but we are still looking at our data and discussing it. We are
looking forward to presenting our results!
"Maybe they wanted credit for changing it"
"Maybe they need to understand it better"
"Maybe they thought they were better than us"
"They didn't follow directions"
"They forgot the why not"
"she's right...just follow the rules"
"But it's not for other people, its for them"
"Well...what if they don't like our hair? Does that mean we can't wear it either?"
"That's kind of rude"
"They didn't want us to know their name because they are ashamed."
"Adults are suppose to think better than that"
This
week we will continue to look at our survey data and
we will also be moving on to our animal research! WoohooO! =)
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