Summer School Science Activities
This summer I taught a month of summer school for students in my school district. The summer school program focused on STEM & the topic "Under the Sea". I got to design 3 days of curriculum of my choice for 5th/6th grade students. I had 4 different groups of students (about 25 per class) and had each group for 3 days. Check out some of the ideas I implemented in my summer school classroom! Build An Ecosystem Students built an ecosystem in a jar and kept track of changes and temperature of their water over several days. I went to Petco and bought aquatic plants & sea gravel to put in the jars. My students needed help sticking the roots of the plants in the gravel Elmer's Build a Boat Challenge http://elmers.com/lesson-plans/lesson-plan/build-a-boat The Elmer's Build a Boat Challenge is a fun project for students that places a price value on different materials and asks students to construct a boat that will be both economical and hold a lot o...