weather, geography, physical sciences – Page 2 – April Pulley Sayre Author Photo illustrator

Posted on March 29, 2009April 13, 2009

If I Were a Dust Particle . . . More from Indian Hill Elementary!

Here are some more great educational ideas from Indian Hill Elementary in Cincinnati, Ohio. These are from a school visit week in Feb, 2009. The first ones extend STARS BENEATH YOUR BED: THE SURPRISING STORY OF DUST.

Students imagine fiction based on Stars Beneath Your Bed

Each classroom had a welcome board outside the door with that day’s special message to students.

I visited with so many great educators at Indian Ridge. This teacher had her students write buggy poems. For another project they made masks related to the characters in books.

Posted on December 12, 2008February 2, 2009

Sunrises, Science, Coffee Filters, and Art

Thank you, librarian Jonelle Hamou, for contributing this project. 3rd and 4th grade students at Frederick Douglass Elementary, in Winchester, VA, investigated science and art in connection with STARS BENEATH YOUR BED: the Surprising Story of Dust.

Students use ink pens to color parts of coffee filters, then fold each filter into a pie-piece shape. Continue reading “Sunrises, Science, Coffee Filters, and Art”

Posted on September 5, 2008January 31, 2020

Stars Beneath Your Bed Activities

Jonelle Hamou and the students at Frederick Douglass Elem in Winchester, VA used coffee filters and ink to do science and sunsets and sunrises.

Nappanee Students make volcanoes with paint.

Connersville Young Authors Celebrate the Book

Posted on August 11, 2007February 1, 2020

Continents Activities at Nappanee Elementary

Wow, do they know how to dig into a subject! Look at what Nappanee Elementary did with the continents theme.

Each hall (grade) studied/featured a continent

Celebrating Australia with Aboriginal dot painting

Books read translated to travel points on a schoolwide map

Young writers create books about the continent they studied

Cotton ball parka trim around student’s pictures!

Posted on June 5, 2007February 1, 2020

Continents Activities

The first of these is from Wea Ridge Elementary School. But most of these great activities come from Harrison School in South Bend. Wow, what an enthusiastic school!

Harrison School, an entire grade, celebrated continents!

True and False Flip Penguins at Harrison

Each classroom chose a continent and decorated and wrote

Responding to what they learn: “Penguins walk like an old person.”

a didgeridoo made of paper and decorated

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