8 AM - 4:30 PM
Eagle Creek Academy
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Small groups lead to deeper learning.
Grade 5: Mock Trial
After reading The Westing Game, the students worked in small groups to adlib and then present mock trials incorporating the novel’s chain of events. |
Grade 3: Team Challenges
While working with 5 plastic cups, 5 rubber bands and 5 pieces of string, the children practiced solving challenges as a team. |
Grades 5 and 6: Cooking
Each small group chose an apple recipe and collected equipment and ingredients. Then, they created & shared their delicious treats. |
Grade 4: Plant Life
Each group took apart various flowers and categorized the parts. This led to an investigation into how real scientists classify plants. |
Grade 5: Capturing Gas
After finishing an experiment that emitted CO2 gas, one group wanted to capture the CO2 gas. They worked together to devise a new experiment to do that. |
Grades 6: Energy
After watching objects to see why one continues moving while the other stops, each pair devised a theory of motion which we compared to the standard theory. |
Active learning is fun!
After reading the book Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, these children dressed as interesting words such as "luminous" and "stealthy" and paraded from room to room so they could teach the words to other children.
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After studying the art and culture of Japanese Durama dolls, our 4th and 5th graders created their own dolls and set personal goals to align with their finished creations.
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While reading about the Loch Ness monster, we designed rafts to carry tourists across a lake. After conferences with other teams, each team adopted new designs and rebuilt. This led to interesting deliberations and new calculations.
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Kids like to discover scientific theories before reading about them.
The third graders discovered that the electric charge on an object can bend water, pick up pepper and roll a can. This led to a more in-depth lesson about static electricity.
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After melting several substances, these sixth grade students decided the melting point of a substance is the temperature at which it begins to change from solid to liquid. They were right!
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Watch these videos to see why kids love hands-on activities!
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Watch some fifth and sixth graders work together!
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Put your gloves on for this!
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Watch these children perform the skit they wrote in French. "It was fun to write a whole skit and practice together." Marcelo, grade 5
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After researching the types of government and how governments impact the way we live, the third graders designed a detailed government of an imaginary country.
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"Today we were challenged to see how many square units we could find inside other shapes. I never knew that square units were in triangles and other shapes, so it was really interesting." Kate, grade 3
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Our fourth graders worked in teams to create products that solve everyday problems. They created their products from household materials, built prototypes & presented their business plans to a panel of “sharks.”
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When children take action, they understand & remember.
The fourth graders dissected owl pellets to make inferences about their ecosystem and diet. They used a chart to sort and identify the different bones. They were very excited to discover a rat skull in one of the pellets!
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