Educating Our Eagles - 11/2021
A publication of the Southern Berkshire Regional School District. Once a month we will be highlighting our students and teachers as they work together to grow and learn. The goal of this newsletter is to provide you with a window into our day-to-day experiences and an opportunity to see into our classrooms. Each day we strive to create interactive and highly engaging lessons that support and inspire all learners.
A publication of the Southern Berkshire Regional School District.
Once a month we will be highlighting our students
and teachers as they work together to grow and learn.
The goal of this newsletter is to provide you with a
window into our day-to-day experiences and an
opportunity to see into our classrooms. Each day we
strive to create interactive and highly engaging lessons
that support and inspire all learners.
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- instruction
- educating
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
The Incredible Journey
Storm Water Runoff Simulation
Description:
Incredible Journey: In the Incredible Journey, fifth graders pretend that they are droplets
of water and go through a series of stations based on the roll of a die. As they travel to
each station they collect a bead to make a bracelet. The stations include Cloud, Animals,
Plants, Stream, Soil, Ocean, Mountain, Glacier, and Rivers. Depending on the number
that they roll, they either stay in that station and collect a bead or journey to another
station and collect a new bead there. This simulation helps students to understand how
water travels around the earth.
Storm Water Runoff Simulation: In this lesson students work in small teams with storm
drain models to simulate how our water is most commonly polluted today. Then students
learn about and apply innovative technologies, like roof top gardens and porous asphalt to
help lessen the amount of pollution that ends up in their storm drain.
Student Learning Goals/Outcomes:
As a result of instruction, students will be able to...
• use a model to describe the cycling of water through a watershed through
evaporation, precipitation, absorption, surface runoff and condensation.
• obtain and combine information about ways communities can reduce the human
impact on earth’s resources.
Review:
Students were highly engaged and participatory in both simulations.
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