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Projects Portfolio
 Essential QuestionHow do we create a culture of synergy in our classroom? |
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 Tent Set-upTeamwork activities help to build a culture of synergy within the students. |
 Culture Camp Badge WorkshopsBadge workshops were a variety of activities that helped prepare the students for the Camp Synergy Camp-Out. These activities ranged from creating chants, camp clean-up, creating campfire stories, basic first aid, and the science of s'mores. |
 Camp Synergy Camp-OutStudents enjoyed three days full of independence, interdependence, empathy, courage and confidence. It's not so easy being away from home for two nights. |
 From the Ground Up: A Study in FlighEssential Question: How Do Butterflies and Birds Stay in the Sky? |
 Project Launch: Day 1Paper Airplane Challenge Students were challenged with creating paper airplanes then flying them through hoops. |
 Project Launch: Paper AirplanesPaper Airplane Challenge |
 Monarch Waystaion and GardenMonarch Waystation and Butterfly Garden was created two years ago. It is an ongoing project and perfect to increase interest and rigor in our fourth grade curriculum. |
 Monarch Butterfly AdaptationMonarch Butterfly Adaptations research created by students. Students are researching various parts of Monarch Butterfly Conservation Efforts in order to become engaged in our bigger world. |
1st Grade
School Year 2012-2013
Monarch Waystation and Butterfly Garden Outdoor Science Lab
A First Grade Animal Fieldguide to the San Diego Zoo
The focus of the beginning of the year was to build a strong culture of empathy, compassion, independence, interdendence, and confidence. Camp Synergy is what the fourth grade team called it.
Our City of Commons
EQ: How do the member of our community practice the High Tech High Five (Good Character Traits)?
First graders took on the adventure of learning about their community around them. They built a large scale city in our commons area after learning; how to use basic mapping skills, who were some of the major local community members, diving into good character traits and finally creating videos with those community member on how they practiced those character traits.
Monarch Waystation/ButterflyGarden |
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Current School Year 2013-2014
Camp Synergy: Culture Camp
The focus of the beginning of the year was to build a strong culture of empathy, compassion, independence, interdendence, and confidence.
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Monarch Butterflies in Flight
This project focuses on the science principles of flight by looking at monarch butterfly adaptations to flight, migration patterns, and conservation efforts.
See my Class Digital Portfolio: Camp Synergy
Click on the images and thumbnails to view the project descriptions, planning, and images.
 Mapping our City of Commons |
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 iMovie Training |
 EmpathyEmpathy at work at our local fire department. |
1st Grade
School Year 2011-2012
HTe Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Butterfly Garden
This project focuses on the science principles of flight by looking at monarch butterfly adaptations to flight, migration patterns, and conservation efforts.
HTe Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Butterfly Garden
This project focuses on the science principles of flight by looking at monarch butterfly adaptations to flight, migration patterns, and conservation efforts.