2011-2012 Teachers
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Michelle Frazier
Email : mfrazier@cpsd.us
School Name : Baldwin School
GLACIER Fellow: Evan Goldman
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My Classroom
The Baldwin School is located right outside of Harvard Square, where the twenty-one fifth graders in room 308 enjoy working with their resident scientist, Mr. Goldman on Wednesdays and Fridays. Evan is helping to sculpt mini units for the class ranging on topics from weather to magnets, with a focus on bringing the lessons together under three umbrellas: how science uses models; climate change; and how the students can make a difference by doing their own citizen science. So far students have made models of their school, the rock cycle, and an aquifer. For citizen science, they have each picked a tree near the school, identified for them by Boston University professor Richard Primack, and started a year long observation and data collection to see when the tree sheds it leaves, and when it leafs out again in spring. Their first climate change lesson is coming soon!
The student's have enjoyed two science field trips so far this year, one to the Minerals Lab at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and another to the Museum of Science to see a Pompeii exhibit and to watch a film on animal migration. In addition, during the day Mr. Goldman weaves science in other subjects. He leads science read alouds about scientists and topics we cover, and during writing workshop, has students work on science probes, exploring their own thoughts and assumptions.
In another activity, all the students made costumes of a science word for a word parade. Students created costume depictions of words they picked like: herbivore, predator, and hypothesis. The GK12 teacher-fellow team is very proud of the work of the young scientists so far this year. The range of experiences offered to the students by the GLACIER Project has brought science to them in new ways, and challenges their thinking and understanding of the world around them.
The Baldwin School is located right outside of Harvard Square, where the twenty-one fifth graders in room 308 enjoy working with their resident scientist, Mr. Goldman on Wednesdays and Fridays. Evan is helping to sculpt mini units for the class ranging on topics from weather to magnets, with a focus on bringing the lessons together under three umbrellas: how science uses models; climate change; and how the students can make a difference by doing their own citizen science. So far students have made models of their school, the rock cycle, and an aquifer. For citizen science, they have each picked a tree near the school, identified for them by Boston University professor Richard Primack, and started a year long observation and data collection to see when the tree sheds it leaves, and when it leafs out again in spring. Their first climate change lesson is coming soon!
The student's have enjoyed two science field trips so far this year, one to the Minerals Lab at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and another to the Museum of Science to see a Pompeii exhibit and to watch a film on animal migration. In addition, during the day Mr. Goldman weaves science in other subjects. He leads science read alouds about scientists and topics we cover, and during writing workshop, has students work on science probes, exploring their own thoughts and assumptions.
In another activity, all the students made costumes of a science word for a word parade. Students created costume depictions of words they picked like: herbivore, predator, and hypothesis. The GK12 teacher-fellow team is very proud of the work of the young scientists so far this year. The range of experiences offered to the students by the GLACIER Project has brought science to them in new ways, and challenges their thinking and understanding of the world around them. |
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Sponsored by the NSF GK-12 Program
