On the first day of school, grade 6 students were given 20 minutes and asked to come up with innovative design solutions to improve the design or functioning of a reusable water bottle. Here are some of their ideas. What are your ideas? Please take a moment and share your ideas about improving a water bottle.
Is Messi worth his salary?
These two students were curious about this question and they used math to come up with an answer which may surprise you!
Which video game has the best value?
These two students decided to use their math unit on Ratios and Rates to prove which video game has the best value. Check out their video to see the winner!
Student wants to help reduce Global Warming!
In grade 6, one of the units is Ecosystems. This student was curious about the Arctic ecosystem. Continue reading “Student wants to help reduce Global Warming!”
Why balance in an ecosystem is important.
Are you curious about how an ecosystem maintains balance? Do you ever wonder what could happen if a species goes extinct? This student asked similar questions and produced this tutorial video to explain.
Ecosystem instructional creativity!
Check out these instructional videos created by grade 6 students to teach about various ecosystem topics from diversity to abiotic and biotic factors.
Multiplying a fraction and a whole number
An answer to a challenge problem
These two grade 6 students worked on answering the following challenge problem:
Student improves the air board based on knowledge gained from learning about the cell.
This grade 6 ELL student spent time learning about various organelles of a cell system while also learning about the system he chose to compare it to; the airboard. As he learned about the mitochondria and how it makes energy for a cell, he was curious about the energy of his system and he came up with a What if.
What if, the airboard could produce its own energy?
Very cool!
A middle schooler was curious about a fuzzy growth in her ecosystem and using a microscope, she found this organism on her slide.
