Stone Table STEM Club

Presentations: Here is some of the delight driven presentations we heard about today: rocks, hurricanes, chemical reactions, cotton, and compost. Presentation Reminders: Provide an image or a hands-on example.   Highlight key-words, or use bullet points on an index card. Practice presenting before you come Project your voice, so that everyone can hear you.  (I usually say to bounce your voice off the back wall.) Science Time: This week we introduced another natural force.  Magnetism.  We learned that magnetism is an invisible force or field.  This week we focused the magnetic field and on magnets.   Students learned that a magnet is a special material whose molecules are arranged so that their electrons spin in the same direction.  This molecular structure creates a magnetic force that flows from one side (or pole) to the other.   In class, we placed magnets under a piece of paper and sprinkled iron filings on top of the paper.  This allowed us to see the ma

Presentations: I am loving the presentations!  Today we learned about black holes, tasting foods, water cycle, tornadoes,  and volcanoes. In class, I asked for students to take a next step for their presentations.  They are doing a great job preparing and providing images, but they tend to speak to their written papers instead of to the class.   I would love for students to continue to prepare as they have beautifully done, but then to take the next two steps in presenting the material. Highlight papers or use bullet points on an index card. Practice presenting their presentation before they come.  Here is a video that covers presentation topics.  (BTW, It is funny that a video on presentation has no speech, but it does a nice job covering what we need to know and has some animation. : ) Science Time: This week was a review week.  We reviewed what we have been learning in class.  (Check back for a link to online flash cards that cover the following terms.)

Read below for a recap of our day.  Find science videos, Black Belt Math support material, and suggested homework. Note: It is best to view our blog on the computer. Presentations: Lots of great presentations today.  We learned about parrots, buoyancy, fingerprints, and a couple of great demonstrations.   Science Time: This week we learned about Potential Energy (stored energy) and Kinetic Energy (the energy of motion.) Next, we made paper airplanes with rubber band force ( Tension Force.)   Here is the link to the paper airplane template just in case they would like to make another kind.  http://www.funpaperairplanes.com/ Math Time: Students teamed up and played a math game.  K-3 Played math Tic-Tack-Toe, and 4-6 Connect 4 Math. Keep up the good work mastering facts. Today we handed out math belts. Please note: It is okay to stay on a level as long as it is necessary to master the material. Perhaps some students it will need to take several weeks to master +