What is exploration?During P.E. we have been focusing exploration. This approach allows the class to be student-centerer. Students make individual decisions about how to move and what to play, while staying within the limits of safety. During exploration, students can make their own decisions and can be creative however they need to remain active the entire class time and respect the space of others.
Here students collaborated and researched a science experiment. Students were asked to write up the scientific method for their experiment in English and then in French. This included building their own hypothesis, including a step by step procedure, writing up their results and including a conclusion with deeper learning. Students used the iPad to record their voice explaining their process and demonstrating the experiment. Later, students were asked to present to the entire class.
This hands-on approach allowed students to be engaged in their own learning, allowed for differentiation, and student innovation. During our walking field trip, students were asked to find specific French forest vocabulary. Once they found the items, they needed to take an artistic photo of them.
Here students learnt how to create their own slime. Groups made observations of what happens when they stretched it out gently and then suddenly. They observed dropping it from different heights. Their final challenge: Which group could stretch out their slime the furtherest without it breaking? The groups were quite creative with this challenge which made it even more exciting.
The following week, students went into the deeper learning. They found out that the slime they created from white glue and borax was a flexible polymer. Polymers are made up of many many molecules all strung together to form really long chains. Students learnt that slime is a unique POLYMER because it has qualities of both a solid and a liquid. Other examples of polymers: Jell-O, rubber bands, plastic soda bottles, sneaker soles, and even gum.
Here students recited the French version of the poem "In Flanders Fields" and displayed their art work. Here students are in Halloween costumes putting their final touches to their Fibonacci posters. Great team work everyone!
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