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Amazing showcase of student art work by our fabulous art teacher Ms. Sullivan at our CommunityDay of scholars event! 🤓🏆@mjperkins2014 @BostonSchools

In Gr. 4 we are engineering switches for our circuits out of everyday materials to get ready for our big engineering challenge. @SmithsonianEdu @mjperkins2014

Introducing: #BPSSundays! In this historic partnership between @MayorWu, @ArtsinBoston, and @BostonSchools, the BPS community can visit some amazing cultural institutions free of charge on the first and second Sundays of each month! Learn more: ow.ly/Q5Hu50Qxn8n

Our K2 class working on their pumpkin volcano experiments in science class! 🎃 🌋 🧪 Thank you Ms.Rosa for such a cool experiment today!

How can we make a lesson about water on slope more interesting for STEM Friday? That’s easy! WATERSLIDES! 💦🛝😎 @mjperkins2014 #STEM

To all our hardworking custodians!

More time in the schedule for science = STEM Fridays! We kicked off STEM Fridays by making lava lamps and discussing density! 🔬⚗️🧪🤯🤓

HOW to DRAW a HEDGEHOG (🦔😴)

Did you know that I was published in this month’s Science and Children ? nsta.org/science-and-ch… Check it out. Please consider writing for the column too. Let me know if you’re interested and we will make time to connect!

Support the @mjperkins2014 gofund.me/1ab09fcf !!!

Can you tell what season it is just by looking around our classroom? 💐🌷🌻🌧️🌦️🌈 We are propagating house plants, growing potatoes, and waiting patiently for some spring flowers to observe! 🤓

Creating space for conversations about the importance of placed-based learning and sharing stories from the inaugural cohort of climate in the the classroom at #NSTA2023 @StoneLivingLab @34islandsboston

This tool describes the strategy of "self-documentation," which allows teachers to make the most of sources of knowledge from students’ own cultures and communities. stemteachingtools.org/brief/31

Assessments where students have the opportunity to receive feedback and use them to revise their thinking can support a more authentic learning environment for all students. #FindingFridays

Wee engineers in action!🤓 Today, we tested out our fan designs to see if they would move the ball across the race track. It was awesome to see how motivated Ss were to create and improve their designs. @EiE_org @mjperkins2014 #NGSS #Kindergarten

@MsLeeSTEAM @DefinedLearning The challenging part was measuring the length, width and height for the different shape tanks. Some opted to go with a 🔺and a 🔴 but most went w/rectangle tanks. We had fun converting feet to inches. In the future, I would loop in the classroom teacher to help Ss w/this part.

@MsLeeSTEAM @DefinedLearning Before we could create our blueprint we spent time talking about the size of waiting rooms and how big our tanks should be. We put masking tape on the floor to measure length and width and used rulers to visualize height. I also took out an empty 10 gallon tank for reference.

On day 2, we created blueprints for our designs and conducted research on the type of plants and animals that we wanted in our aquariums. On day 3, we created our 2D and 3D prototypes! My students ❤️ having choice in how they created their product. Thanks @DefinedLearning! #PBL

Today, we kicked off our aquarium designer project from @DefinedLearning! We had some interesting discussions about how professionals design aquariums and created our own designs. Keep your eyes 👀 peeled for our final designs later in the week. ##PBL #sciencelearning

Can we make Mac McClung's dunking skills a phenomenon for an #NGSS elementary science unit?! I would love to see what a driving question board would look like after introducing this video! 🤓🥳🤩 #OpenSciEd #phenomena