MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:50 Coding & Penguins in Disguise

  Our Makerspace has been busy this week as Decatur's FIRST Lego League prepared for a city qualifier on Sunday, December 12. FIRST Lego League were not the only ones coding this week, as 7th and 8th graders explored using Sphero Bolt robots to get through a maze. Students will explore using both the 'joystick' feature as well as block coding to get through the maze. Meanwhile, inspired by the story "Tacky the Penguins" students in K-4 have been designing disguises to save a penguin. Check back next week for our final disguises and updates from our city qualifier on Sunday!

  Uploaded Dec 10, 2021
• 00:09 Slaps, Taps & Wraps

  We started our basketball unit this week and started practicing our dribbling. One of the drills we did was called Slaps, Taps & Wraps. This drill helps with our hand and wrist strength along with out ball handing skills.

  Uploaded Dec 10, 2021
• 00:16 Chapter 4 Opener

  In this video, we see third graders working with their assigned partners to create an anchor chart for our new math unit: Chapter 4 Multiplication. Students co-constructed with me, their rubric for this task so that their voices and ideas are captured in how they would be graded for this.

  Uploaded Dec 10, 2021 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:16 Chapter 4 Opener

  In this video, students are working with their assigned partner to create an anchor chart for our new math unit: Chapter 4 Multiplication. They were given a word problem that they were having to solve for through completing this task. They even co-constructed a rubric for this assignment with me so that their voices and ideas are captured in how they would be graded.
  

  Uploaded Dec 10, 2021
• 00:25 4th Animal Vision Models Featured

  Students are working on their culminating project of creating a model of animal vision in their unit on vision and light

  Uploaded Dec 04, 2021 by Ryan Cherry
• 00:25 First Amendment Instagram

  8th graders created Instagram posts to show how the First Amendment allows individual citizens to be civic actors in a democracy.

  Uploaded Dec 04, 2021 by Marianne Sharping
• 00:11 Seeing the World Through Numbers

  Students worked in pair to read a text called, Seeing the World Through Numbers. They were challenged to visualize each number from the book's illustrations. For example, the number 128 can be visualized as 128 ft, 128 centimeter 12 millimeters..etc Without these forms of measurements, scientist would have no context for understanding the world.

  Uploaded Dec 03, 2021 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 4:18 Balloons Over Broadway | Green Screen Edition!

  Last week, students worked on designing balloons inspired by the 'Macy's Thanksgiving Day' Parade. Afterwards, they experimented with a green screen app, "Chromavid" to see their balloons walk down the streets of New York. Enjoy and stay tuned for more green screen projects in the future!

  Uploaded Dec 03, 2021
• 1:57 Week 13: Just the 2 days of Nov. 22 & 23

  This shortened week's slideshow includes: 8th grade made models to show how DNA sequences code for protein structures; 7th grade explored cooperatively and shared their understanding of how carbohydrates and proteins are broken down in the stomach and small intestines so that cells can undergo cellular respiration, as well as compared the cellular structures of various plants; 6th graders cooperatively explored as partners and then shared their understanding of the world's prevailing wind patterns to help understand the role of the Coriolis Effect.

  Uploaded Nov 26, 2021 by Gerard Kovach
• 00:29 6th Graders Don't Work at a Snail's Pace :)
  Uploaded Nov 26, 2021 by Gerard Kovach