Tornado Activity Today we were invited to do some Science and Math activities with professors at THE US NAVAL ACADEMY in Annapolis, MD. Students were broken into groups after lunch and were each able to take part in 4, out of 9 total, activities. My group did severe storms (pictured left), code breaking, aquaculture, and robotics. In the storm acitivity the students worked in groups and built a house out of wood and tape and then put it in the wind tunnel to simulate a tornado over the house. One group managed to hold of the tornado winds up to 150 mph! In the robotics course students embeded codes into their robots for various movements. Once they had the codes down they had their robots go through mazes. I had the professors tell me that they have had high school groups come thought that were unable to do what our own fifth graders did today. Ask your children tonight about what they did today! More pics coming!
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Below I have our upcoming field trips and dates listed. All of these trips are very important part of our thematic unit “Wars of Expansion” as well as our Star Spangled Banner National Trail community service project with the National Park Service. We will even be partaking in math and science activities at the Naval Academy! The first field trip slip will be coming home this Friday. Let me know if you have any questions! JAN. 25th –Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, MD) · Cost $6 (This is the admission fee only. They are paying for our bus!) Pack a lunch JAN. 31st–National Museum of the Marine Corps (Quantico, VA) · $10 (transportation) · Pack a lunch FEB. 7th- US Capitol Building and Library of Congress (Washington D.C.) · $10 (transportation) · Pack a lunch or bring money for lunch FEB. 8th-US Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD) · FREE · Lunch will be provided by the Naval Academy! |
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