Incredible Learning: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics - STEAM!
The Honorable Susan Davis, Scott Peters and Duncan Hunter Visited CMS Students and Staff Today at Nationally Recognized Assembly
All 5th - 8th grade CUSD students were treated to a very special learning opportunity today thanks to Honeywell and NASA which has a nationwide, traveling program with the intent to inspire science, mathematics and engineering success.
Honeywell and NASA created FMA Live! to inspire 5-8th grade students to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts and careers. The program addresses Forces and Motion learning objectives outlined by the Next Generation Science Education Standards for students in grades 5-8.
CUSD 5-8th grade students were able to experience an award-winning science education concert through an interactive, traveling hip-hop concert focusing on Newton's Universal Law of Gravity and Three Laws of Motion (Force equals Mass times Acceleration) and how to connect science and engineering to everyday life. Including how studying Newtonian physics can lead to interesting, competitive careers.
Students and staff learned first-hand by participating in the assembly event as well. This was accomplished through a hip-hop concert, choreography, cool videos, giant sticky walls, extreme wrestlers, and the "Man Behind the Motion:" Sir Isaac Newton. Middle-school students never knew science could be so fun!
Thanks to NASA and Honeywell for sponsoring this entire event and all of our students, staff and special guests on hand to experience this once in a lifetime event.
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Are You Ready to ShakeOut? Students Develop Skills for Coping with Earthquakes in Statewide Drill at All Schools
With 37 million people living and working in California, a major earthquake could cause unprecedented devastation. What we do now, before a big earthquake, will determine what our lives will be like afterwards. With earthquakes an inevitable part of California's future, we must act quickly to ensure that disasters do not become catastrophes.
The Great California ShakeOut in October 2013 involved over 9.6 million Californians through a broad-based outreach program, media partnerships, and public advocacy by hundreds of partners. The drill is now held statewide annually on the third Thursday of October, and is organized by the Earthquake Country Alliance (www.earthquakecountry.org). The 2014 Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill happened at all schools yesterday and today.
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Measuring Skills Honed in Fifth Grade Math Lessons
Village Elementary School featured exciting, hands on, common core math activities last week. Mrs. Coker's and Ms. Tickner's 5th grade classes used their knowledge of the base ten place value system to calculate metric measurement conversions for a delicious berry popsicle recipe and for designing chalk art line drawings. The math skills involved everything from multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of ten to using exponents (scientific notation) in calculating our measurement conversions. Students had a great time eating the fruits of our labor once the frozen berry popsicles were done!
Tornado Projects Surround Students at Crown Preschool
Students at Crown Preschool had fun with a whirlwind of activities to celebrate different types of weather last week. Their heads were in the clouds as they painted a mix of shaving cream and glue onto sky blue paper. When the clouds were dry they felt puffy and bumpy.
The little ones also did a science experiment to learn how rain comes from the clouds. They squirted shaving cream on top of the water, then dropped blue food coloring (rain) onto the clouds. After a few seconds the "rain" came down and they could see it moving in the water. They chose to add more food coloring, either red or yellow, to make new colors like green and purple.
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