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SEM at Farnsworth includes a variety of experiences for students.
Students in grades fourth through sixth
will participate in video productions which provides an opportunity for students to learn and apply group skills and higher-order thinking. There are many video formats/genres that lend themselves to classroom projects. and which push students to learn a wider variety of skills
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Morning announcements (requirement)
Video Production- Classrooms will rotate to develop Morning Announcements, every day, and also broadcast events, like the Boeing 787 assembly or the B-25 fly over. students will work on visual literacy and how we are persuaded through creating commercials and movies. In this process, students learn the grammar of film (film terms), the power of the media to persuade and how to tell a story visually
Public Service Announcement (PSA)
Students design a PSA to speak out on an issue that affects their world. The goal is to build awareness, start a discussion, or change negative behaviors.
Students create a video of a science experiment.
They start with the topic, materials, procedure, and their hypothesis. Then they present the experiment including their results. They end by connecting the experiment to the “real world.
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Aerospace SEM
Kindergarten The Five Senses
Students will be doing hands-on activities to explore each of the five senses. They will learn how astronauts and scientists use their five senses to explore space.
Grade 1 NASA Seed Project
Grade one will learn about the moon and the astronauts that explored it. They will write poetry and do creative art work to go with their poetry. An application has been sent in for participating in the NASA seed project. They will be growing seeds that have been returned from space to earth. Students will graph the results and journal the growth of the seeds.
Grade 2 The Sun
Grade two is learning about the sun. They will do both fiction and non-fiction writing. Students will create art work and models to go with their writings.
Grade 3 The Galaxies
Grade three is learning about galaxies. they will do chromatography to create their galaxies and write a poem to go with their galaxy. Students will research a variety of objects in the solar system. They will create stories and artwork to go with their object, both fiction and non-fiction.
Grade 4 NASA Space Challenges
Students will work in teams to create a project including research for their space challenge. They will need to use various resources and document their sources. Students will need to test their solutions to the challenge and graph their results. They will need to make changes to improve their final product.
Grade 5 NASA Space Challenges
Students will work in teams to create a project including research for their space challenge. They will do experiments and activities to help them think outside the box. Teams will research and test their solutions. They will document their results using graphs and charts. Students will demonstrate their apparatus a video along with their research will be submitted for competition.
Grade 6 NASA Space Challenges
Students will work in teams to create a project including research for their space challenge. Teams will research and test their solutions. They will document their
results using graphs and charts. Students will demonstrate their
apparatus. a video plus their research will be submitted for
competition.
these students also will work on the Renzulli Learning program. Click below for more information.
Click here or the Planning Calendar link to sign up your class/students.
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Renzulli Program Overview
SEM students in grades 3 - 6 have the opportunity to use the Renzulli Learning system to enrich their learning.
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