The last couple weeks have flown by! We have had lots of different things going on here at MLGS. Here is the rundown on a few of those things:
Mrs. Hanna's Sixth Grade classes have been studying ancient Egypt in class. As a project, they created pyramids out of sugar cubes. For extra credit, some of the students also created pyramids with legos, with buildwithchrome, a lego building app on the chrome browser, or in a computer game called minecraft. The students really got into this and were very creative with the projects.
Our Fourth Grade students have been working on a plant life cycle project in Science. Like most schools, we are trying to conserve paper as much as possible,
so Mrs. Rutan and Mrs. Wiley decided to have the kids put together a diagram of the process in computer class using Google Drawing. Mrs. Schield did an excellent job teaching the student to do this, and they picked up on it quickly. They were surprised at how quickly the students picked up on it. I am including a student example.
Finally, the Stuco purchased new welcome rugs for the school. The rugs came in last week and they look great! Thanks to Mrs. Buck and the Stuco kids this year!
This week is Fire Safety week, we have activities planned this week to help the kids learn about fire and how to stay safe.
Have a great week!
Today, Mrs. Buck's 6th Grade Science Class was doing a simulation on offshore drilling. They had been discussing rocks and fossil fuels. In our area of the country, there is a great deal of oil drilling going on, so they spent some time discussing oil, where it comes from, and how we depend on it. This led to a conversation about offshore drilling and Mrs. Buck had this simulation to give the students a better understanding of the process involved and the risks in doing it. First, they made models with play-doh representing the different parts of the ocean floor. Then, they buried some black in the play-doh to represent oil. Next, they swapped models for the simulation so they would not know where the oil was located. In their group, they had to learn and understand the process and the general cost of a drilling project. Then they had to review the environmental risk of drilling and make a decision on where to drill. Then they were ready to drill for oil! To drill they poked a straw into the play-doh to see if they found any black (oil). Some of the groups hit oil the first time and were able to finish. Others missed, and had to weigh the risk of drilling again while consulting with an environmental specialist to measure the impact of another drilling attempt. Finally, they had to finish recording all of their data and information and calculating the final cost of their drilling project. This was a great project that forced the students to think about a real world issue that we are facing and gave them some background knowledge to help them form an educated opinion on offshore oil drilling!
