How does science love math; let me count the ways. :D
Seriously though, I love that you asked this question. Today one of my colleagues was teaching hydroponics and I got to observe the lesson. They were learning about different systems used for hydroponics. Last week they planted beans in various growing mediums and some of them sprouted and were quite tall. As teams of students got up to share the variety of systems, I checked out the plants and saw the students had made graphs to chart the growth of plants. (measurement over time) That was 5th grade.
4th grade is working on the climate in our state so they are using a variety of stimulus like maps and graphs to determine what the average rainfall is in each region of the state. They are also using the daily newspaper to check the weather forecast and sadly, we have 100% chance of rain predicted for Halloween night!
We held a STEM Night last week and students were doing liquid and solids measurement for chemical reactions. At one of the stations they made marshmallow shooters and had to measure which team shot their marshmallows the farthest. We made blubber gloves for another station and they had to check the temperature in the water. Another station was gliding paper robots and they had to measure the strongs for their robots to climb/glide on.
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