TEDx: Living with Learning Disabilities

Modeling Mitosis

The idea of mitosis (cell division) is quite new and challenging for grade 5 students, so it’s time for an interesting hands-on activity to approach this concept. Students modeled the stages of mitosis at their homes using different materials as pasta, clay, biscuits, beads… enjoy!

Electric Fan

Angles in our names!

Did you know that your name is full of angles?

Well, you can try this activity as my 5th graders. While we were studying about measuring and types of angles I asked my students to draw their own name, then measure the angles using their protractors and classify them. Students learned that angles are found in almost everything around us. They also learned to measure and classify angles in a very funny and innovative way.
I bet you are all trying to find angles in your own names. 

We are STEAMing- Part 7

World Animal Day

Word Animal day is an international day of action for animal rights celebrated annually on October 4^th. On this occasion, KSPS clovers brought their favorite pet to school and explained in front of their peers how do they take care of them. It was an interesting day since we had the chance to study with our favorite pet.

What do you like most about KSPS?

It has been around a month since the school started. New KSPS clovers had their own opinion concerning their new school. We used a new web 2.0 tool, Padlet, to express what we like most about KSPS.

Making use of Wind Energy

International Day for the preservation of Ozone layer

The International Day for the preservation of Ozone layer is celebrated on September 16 every year.

On this occasion, KSPS students did many activities to raise awareness on the impact of ozone layer on our daily lives. They pledged to become the young protectors of our mother Earth.

The Hydraulic Bridge

Hats off to KSPS busy scientists!

My 4th and 5th graders are studying about scientists, their work, skills and tools they need. Thus, they decided to become real scientists and perform different experiments. Every student brought an experiment with its needed tools to the class and performed it in front of his/her class mates. The photos show everything, enjoy them.

We are "STEAMing"

The cleaning robot is a "STEAM" projects where we integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics to create this model.
 

Have fun teaching, building and learning!

 My 5^th graders are learning about place value through billions. It was time for a funny hands-on activity with building blocks.

Simply we wrote the numbers on the blocks. The (ones) goes on the smallest block, then work your way up to the 4 blocks (thousands) and so on.

The blocks allowed my students to conclude that the biggest number must be at the bottom of the stack, building up to the smallest unit.

 “Playing” with blocks helped my students to physically see and experience place value. This is an important step before one can expect them to understand the concept on paper.

Making learning concrete, helps students to understand a concept easier. It makes learning fun too!