Quarter 4, Week 4, 5/4 to 5/8

6th-grade Science:

Week of May 4 to May 8, 2020 - 

This week's Science Zoom Meeting will be at 12:30 pm again on Thursday, May 7.

Last week I polled students to see if there was any interest and if they could do some Science projects on Minecraft Education Edition. Of the 29 kids who responded 24 are willing and able to play. 

It's free for students of Chimacum Elementary to play so it would cost families nothing. You would just need to download the free game. That way kids could be playing a game while learning and doing Science! I know that video games are distracting some kids and keeping them from doing all their schoolwork so I want to use that to my advantage. To that end, I'm working on hosting a few Science Projects on Minecraft Education; stay tuned. :) Message me on Bloomz if you have any questions.

I put together a quick webpage sharing some 6th graders' daily schedules, challenges they are facing, and advice they are giving each other to all get through this and still get their education. It's great stuff: Click Here (scroll down to see all).

Our fish tracking race started today! I created a 6th grade Science Team on Survive the Sound and some students joined and picked a fish. We can all log in and see how our fish are doing - they track real, live salmon as kids learn about habitat and salmon migration! Here's how our fish were doing this morning (so far on Day 1 ALL our fish were still alive!):

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Here's a list of what 6th graders should be doing for Science with some flexible due dates (students can finish the assignments ahead of time or after the due date if needed) all on Classcraft:

1. Currently - Climate Change (there are 15 videos, each 3 to 6 minutes long) so if students watch three videos per day they can be done in one week - Due Date Friday, May 8.
2. Students should be done with the Thinking Like a Scientist Activity (only five videos) - Due Date, Friday, April 24, or May 1.
3. For those who haven't finished their Hydro Dynamics and the Public Service Announcement, that can be turned in anytime now. 
4. The Earth Day 2020 Pear Deck due this week as well for those who have not done it yet.
5. The COVID-19 Escape Room due this week.
6. The Flipgrid check-in, for those who haven't done it please finish this week, or if your child cannot do it have them message me on Classcraft.

Here are Science activities that are on-going for kids who have finished all of the above or for kids who want to take a break from the above and have some fun while working.

1. Play the review Gimkit games. 
2. Play the Kahoot games.
3. Play any of the Science games on the Gonzalez Legends of Learning Playlists.
4. Leave comments on each other's blog posts.
5. Watch the Classdojo videos.
6. Finish the Star Trek class story.
7. Bonus: Play any of the many Hour of Code Games!
8. Bonus: The Great Optional Science Reading Classcraft quest assignment.

Happy Star Wars Day!