Watershed Coming to Fourth Grade

 

The Watershed, a free program from USC Upstate is coming to the Wonder Lab at OES!  4th Graders will be going on... 

"An Incredible Journey"

Time: 45 minutes

Through the use of an engaging game from the Project Wet curriculum, students will be challenged to answer questions like...

“Where will the water you drink today, be tomorrow?” in their quest to understand the water cycle.

 

We will have fun learning science as we pretend to be water molecules moving from place to place on Tuesday. This will be a great review of our study of clouds and the water cycle as we get ready for our test this week.  Get ready to use your vocabulary words:

precipitation

condensation

runoff

evaporation

transpiration

stratus

cumulus

cirrus

 

 

Our new I-pads have changed our classroom immensely! Now that we  all finally got our Apple IDs, we are in the process of downloading apps that will help us in every subject area.  Each of our 4th grade teachers are busy finding the perfect ones to make their subjects charged with technology.  Although we have lots of time to discover things independently and at our own speed with

 

 

Apples at our fingertips, we also have "apples down" time where we work with partners and small groups to learn.  Here are a few pics of us working with a partner in a match-up game where we are trying to match conjunctions with their definitions...two brains are always better than one!