"True or False" about publishing

To clarify our understanding of publishing, we played a game of "true or false". There are two people who will respond to a statement about publishing, and together with the rest of the class they will decide on the correct answer.  Ms Montilla gave the first statement, and then students started volunteering their own which showed their understanding of what publishing entails. Through this game, we clarified that publishing does not just mean typing up your stories. In fact we said that typing is only one way to do it so that you can share your writing. Publishing is about sharing your completed piece which you ensure is ready for the audience. BOPDs were guided by this learning when they began to publish their posters to explain how to make contraptions. They said that one way to test it is to invite friends to come and recreate their contraptions based on the information that they are sharing. What a great idea!

Mass and distance

BOPDs performed an experiment that put two ideas together: force and mass. First they used an informative text to find out how to perform the experiment and this helped them set it up and prepare to perform it. Then they wrote their individual hypothesis based on the problem posed. Working in threes, they explored who mass affects the distance traveled by an object. Using gram weights, cups and tape measure, they each took roles to ensure the validity of the experiment. They tabulated results on the experiment sheet and interpreted the information to write their conclusion. Some students took the experiment further by adding more grams to to the cup and then predicting outcomes. A few groups innovated by taping the tape measure along the projected path to facilitate the accuracy of their measurement in centimeters.