7th Grade: Titanic the Unsinkable Ship....Not!

How did the Titanic sink?  It was build with 16 water tight compartments and even had double bottoms!  But it did weigh over 46 tons, so that's definitely one reason!  While learning all these incredible facts about the Titanic, students were assigned to build their own unsinkable boat and test it out using marbles as passengers.  How many marbles could they hold before sinking?  See some of these fabulous designs below:

The winning boat pictured left....It held all the marbles I had...Over 200!! I believe she set a record
 as the most passengers/marbles ever in my 6 years teaching this lesson!  Future builder?  Maybe....;)

 

JP Powell

 

 

 

Five Points

 

 

 

Monday's Class WFB

 

 

 

Tuesday's Class WFB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Wednesday's Class WFB

 

 

 

 

Thursday's Class WFB

 

 

 

 

 

6th Grade: Art Appreciation: Mexician artist: Diego Riveria

6th grade learns about Mexican artist Diego Riveria and some Mexican customs and traditions while visiting several learning stations. 

Learning the Mexican Hat Dance

Working with Pastels like our featured Mexican artist: Diego Riveria



Cooking a popular Mexican dessert: Buenelos

Review Mexican words by playing Mexican Bingo

 

7th Grade: Begins TItanic Unit

We first began learning about the building of the Titanic.  As a warm up brainteaser we worked in groups to see who could build the tallest free standing structure in the allotted time of 15 minutes.  Here are some pictures of us hard at work:

The winning tower was 30 inches!! How did they do that? Future architects!!