Challenging Edges - the Upper Elementary Way
Upper Elementary began their adventure to Green River Preserve with 3 goals: 1. Have Fun 2. Challenge your edges. It is always...
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derek1447
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Dyson Spheres
This week we worked hard on our Science Fair Reports and finished our conversation on carrying capacity and the flow of energy. We made...
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derek1447
- Feb 11
- 4 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Engineering and Exploration
Strap in because I may or may not have fallen behind on my blog writing and may or may not have a lot to catch you up on. Ok, I did, and...
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derek1447
- Jan 17
- 1 min
Upper El (Mr. D): MacGuffins & Webs
Last week was certainly a different kind of week to say the least, but we still accomplished a lot! On Monday, we explored a plot device...
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derek1447
- Dec 19, 2021
- 4 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Carrying Capacity and More!
This week we worked on finalizing our Science Fair procedures, so the steps of our experiments are clear. Then we went deep into a...
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derek1447
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Sci-Fair, Loops, Why?
This week, students finished up their stories from last week, began research for the Science Fair, and continued answering our question...
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derek1447
- Dec 3, 2021
- 3 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Morals, Extinctions, and Masters
*I guess I didn't really take pictures this week? Oops! That's all I've got! This week, we explored writing stories with a message or...
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derek1447
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Problem Solved
What an awesome week! We completed stories, caught up on some work, tested our engineering projects, and had an amazing time at the...
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derek1447
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Endings, Obstacles, and Questions
This week, in the afternoon, we worked toward completing our stories, met a new challenge in engineering, and took some further steps on...
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kathleen McIntyre
- Nov 2, 2021
- 1 min
Upper Elementary Overnight Adventure - Sound to Sea
Our Sea and Sound explorers made many wonderful discoveries as they learned about the barrier island’s variety of ecosystems and the...
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derek1447
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Point A to Point B
Upper El may be on their field trip, but that doesn't mean nothing's happened this week! Last week, students finished writing their...
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derek1447
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Great Observers
Our afternoon's this week have introduced a lot of new things. First, on Monday, we started what I'm calling our "Field Notes." We went...
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derek1447
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Characters Speak!
Writing stories involves a lot of different pieces. This week, we spoke about... speaking! In what ways can we use dialogue in our...
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shannon7481
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Upper El - The Slalom (Ms. Shannon)
In searching for a theme of the week, ‘variations’ may be a good choice. In fact, it felt a bit like a slalom. In the News As a...
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derek1447
- Oct 3, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): New Species
Our afternoons this week were full of writing and continuing our Evolution Project with a fun "game" I created to better understand...
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shannon7481
- Oct 1, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Ms. Shannon) - “Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all….
“Waterfall, nothing can harm me at all, my worries seem so very small, with my waterfall.” Jimi Hendrix The highlight of the week for the...
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derek1447
- Sep 24, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El (Mr. D): Natural Selection
This week we started new stories and continued our quest to explore the topic of Life by diving into Darwinian Evolution. For our...
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derek1447
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
UE (Mr. D): Paper Bridges
This week, in the afternoon, we finished our first stories for the year and had fun with our first Engineering challenge! Before we began...
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derek1447
- Sep 3, 2021
- 2 min
UE (Mr. D): Stories and Bangs
This week we started our story writing and explored the origins of our Universe! We started things off on Monday by introducing our...
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derek1447
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
Upper El: First week!
We're back, and it's been a great first week! We dove into our science theme for the year and explored our creativity and how it applies...
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