Wood Workers

Getting ready for vehicle show, first graders practice...sawing, hammering, sanding and gluing.

Student Teachers Come in All Sizes

First grader, Malik, leads Pre-K students as they explore the worms. Which one is Malik?  He is wearing a sweatshirt hood.  Judging from the photos, he was successful at getting students to handle the worms expertly.

 

Fourth Graders Aren't The Only Ones

Second Graders also explored the idea of reservoirs supplying drinking water to island inhabitants.  Their challenges:  Get water from the reservoir to two houses.  Then get water up two story house.

Supplying 3 houses!

Winning in the fight against gravity!

Watershed: From Reservoir to Tap

Fourth Graders made models of the New York State watershed using newspaper landforms covered by plastic to see where bodies of water formed.  As they sprayed blue "rain", they speculated as to where fresh, drinking water might have been found 350 years ago. Then they were told pollution and habitat destruction led to the need for downstate New Yorkers to get their water from upstate reservoirs.  What would happen if they too became polluted?

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Teachers put drops of red food color "pollution" in a spot in the watershed.  Would the pollution enter the student designated reservoirs? Students created another rain storm to find out.