3 main types of clouds

Official Storm Spotting Video Training

Water Cycle

5th grade homework...stream erosion

Erosion

pizza box oven

We're building Solar Ovens!

greenhouse effect

Wind Farms

Making an anemometer

Solar ovens

Wind Socks

Beaufort Wind Scale

Tsunamis

Earthquakes

Tornados

Hurricanes (3rd grade)

What is Work?

Sink or Float?

Life Cycle of an Apple Tree

Growing and Harvesting Pumpkins

Simple Machines

Bill Nye and Light Energy and Optics

Light and Color

Explaining an Electrical Circuit

Stored Wind Energy

Kinetic and Potential Energy

balloon rockets

pushes and pulls

forces and motion

Click on the following link about Fossils

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/scienceforkids/dinosaurs/fossils.htm

and everyone's favorite...Dinosaurs!

The Four Major Geologic Eras...depicting over 300 million years of life

Check with your teacher to see what your class needs to bring for the hands on lab :)

Magetism lab

Magnetism

Volcanoes

It's an Earthquake song...

Layers of the Earth, 2nd Grade

The Layers of the Earth, K-1

Demo of moon phases

Kinder Assign for Green Apple Day of Service DUE THURSDAY

If each Kinder student makes at least 4 then we can have at least 100 bean plant sprouts to create our living noise screen. We will like to have some ghords growing as well so we will need 100 more pots. Parents, please chip in where you can in this project. Due: THURSDAY

supercharging our compost

3rd, 5th grade...Composting...please view to prepare for the Poster and PSA Campaign

Be sure to include guinea pig/rabbit cage messes!

Float / Sink online Lab click on link

http://mrcollings.wikispaces.com/file/view/Flash_FloatingSinking.swf/91707539/Flash_FloatingSinking.swf

Patriotic Day Remembrance and Salute to First Responders

Kinder-2.... Space Unit

Write me five sentences about what this video is about.

Week 4 Assignment...Make a T Chart What Feels Hot/What Feels Cold...and list items around home/classroom

Things that feel WARMish to the touch                              Things that feel COLDish to the touch

Example

1.  carpet                                                                             1. my pen

3 types of Heat...Conduction, Convection and Radiation...

Week #3 Assignment for 3rd-5th grade

Please watch and write me a paragraph, 1) summarizing what the main idea is, 2) How you feel about this message, and 3) tell me an ACTION that you can take to bring about peace in your community.

5th grade group work

3rd grade Scientific Method group activity

5th grade...Scientific Method...Big Bang Style

Kinder---Five senses

Simple visual/explanation mass/volume

States of Matter Rap

Mass vs Weight

Pick ONE Scientist and give me 1-2-3 Bridge Assignment

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What is a 1-2-3- Bridge Assignment? It is: A drawing/symbol of one of the scientists and incorporate 3 words about that describe their work. Then give me 2 sentences answering the following Questions  1) What  is your favorite scientist most famous for? and 2) What type of jobs can you be find today that would use those same skills?

Benjamin Franklin in a Nutshell

Tools of Scientists

Please listen to this and take an inventory of the tools in YOUR house.

Science is Shining Light into Dark Corners

Be practicing our dances moves from the 60's!

Root Words, Suffixes, Prefixes

The Food Web

How do Stalagmites and Stalactites form?

You can fly, but you can't hide Mr. Mosquito!

Geckos...watch this prior to building your cave diorama

Fieldtrippin'....Cave without a Name

Cave without a Name

Bill Nye...Caves

East meets West...Holi meets Fiesta

Parents...How to make a natural colored powder for our Holi celebration

The Festival of Color...Holi...Coming to Monticello..Spring Picnic...Gear Up

Review Contractions

Hey let's practice being official butterfly counters!

Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle

The Seven Spotted Ladybug Life Cycle

Beneficial Insects in a Texas Garden

Introducing Fractions

A Water Drop...slowed down

Water changes everything...

Scientists checking for water pollution...

Contamination Water Cycle

Understanding The Edwards Aquifer

Where does our Trash Go?

Learn about My Plate portions for Healthy Living

After reviewing, please "build" your plate using the materials provided.

Montessori Nomenclature--Parts of a Flower

Review the process of PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Bring a costume for your assigned part in the photosynthesis play practice on Monday, to be taught to Kinder and 1st grade on Tuesday. Check with Ms Rios if you don't remember if you are a sun, flower, oxygen, sun's energy, or carbon dioxide.

Linking Verbs

Rock out with perimeter and area

Hey Geckos, Here's a fun song to learn on the measurements we have been studying.
MASS...is not WEIGHT!!!!

Last Chance Forever Bird Conservancy

Assignment: Please bring in a 2L or 3L plastic bottle

Kahn Academy on Neuons....terms to know

Neurons...an overview

Life Changing

Interview w/Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor on her stroke

Learning the Lobes of the Brain

Preparing for the 2nd Annual Monticello Bike Rodeo...watch

Taste Buds

View of ear canal

The Sense of Smell

Sight

The Sense of Hearing

The Five Senses...the sense of Taste

The Five Senses....the sense of Touch

The Body Brain Test

Ode to the Brain...Symphony of Science

Introducing the.....Brain w/ Bill Nye

Inside Vatican City...architecture of the Renaissance

Jousting....

Renaissance

Introduction to the Renaissance Age

Bill Nye...Digestive System

Compare for yourself: Smoker's lung vs Non-Smoker's Lung

A musical trip in Bronchial Anatomy

More Circulatory...

The Circulatory System (pt 1)

What a hole in your tooth looks like (If you don't brush well)

More singing sand

Singing SAND?! crazy stuff

Weather patterns...deserts....global cycles

A cute mnemonic in storybook form to remember Gallons, Quarts, Pints and Cups

HW: Write your own story to remember these measurements 

How to use Measuring Cups/Spoons for both dry and wet ingredients

Celsius vs Farenheit...watch before completing your HW

Watch this video before completing your HW. Make sure to take home your thermometers in order to complete the HW.

This video has great xray motion pictures of movement...check it out!

Bones, Ligaments, Tendons, and Muscles...

                                  Geckos: Be ready to draw in your bones on Monday

Introducing the Skeletal and Muscular Systems

Geckos: Make sure your textbook reading is up to date as well as the review questions at the end of the chapter. You may not go on to the next chapter without these being completed.

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Homophones

Texas History Facts/Symbols

The Verb Song