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How do diverse students learn to get along and work together? By participating in team-building and interactive problem solving activities such as “Marble Tube Team Play,” “Creative Candy Reach,” and “Blind Polygon,” students will learn thatcommunication skills, cooperation, planning roles, and expectations all impact the outcome of a team effort. Students will learn how to interpret information from food nutrition labels. They will conduct investigations of the nutrition information of fast food restaurants such as Taco Bell, McDonald’s, and Chick-Fil-A. Both healthy and unhealthy choices will be determined. Using information from charts and tables, students will determine calorie content and be challenged to identify activities that would burn those calories. The percentage of fat per serving will also be calculated. Students will be challenged to experience the effect of extra body fat using the “fat belt” while participating in aerobic exercise. Finally, students will be given examples of simple visuals that aid in judging portion size. An understanding of the nature of science is reinforced as students investigate the cause and effect relationship of fat and sugar on the body. By observing and participating in classroom demonstrations, students will learn the content of sugar and fat in some common food and drink items. The effects of too much fat on the heart will be investigated using fat and artery models. Using tennis balls, students will model the blood pumping through the heart. Then they will estimate and draw conclusions about the amounts of blood pumped at rest, during activity, and during a whole day. Students will learn how to take their own heart rate. What does it take to make it to the Olympics as part of the men’s or women’s basketball team? Students will analyze and compare data of professional men and women who play for the NBA and WNBA. Mean, median and mode will be determined based on stats from box scores. Students will suggest a probable winning team of players from both the NBA and WNBA. Then a mock Olympics trial will help students determine their own possibilities based upon the stats they will calculate using ratios, decimals and percentages. Does your DNA affect your ability as an athlete? Students will investigate the hypothesis, “Great athletes are born with the ability to perform at oustanding levels.” Based on the research of Claude Bouchard, perhaps much of our performance ability is determined at birth. Students will identify traits that are inherited and those that are not. By comparing Virginia greats like Tiki and Ronde Barber, students will understand the impact genes may have on athletic ability. The impact of a tiny particle is understood as students extract DNA from strawberries. What does it take to construct a building durable enough to survive a catastrophic earthquake? Students will construct their own miniature buildings and test the distribution of weight, variation of shape and other construction variables using the Hall of Fame earthquake generator. The Periodic Table of Elements has never been so much fun! In this program, students become Olympic athletes. They will explore the athletes’ regimens, scrutinize the medals and their history, tour the Olympic Games facilities, and engage in “The Hunt” all the while identifying elements and their components, metals, non-metals, and chemical/physical properties. Students will use scaled-down applications to master Newton’s three laws of motion and the vocabulary of physics. They will make predictions and then freely exper Science can take you for the ride of your life! Carefully designed mechanisms of physics, roller coasters demonstrate the principles of friction, potential and kinetic energy, velocity, momentum, inertia, centripetal force, acceleration and more. Students will build their own scream machine and compete in the ultimate roller coaster contest. |
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iment with familiar toys and objects, such as hockey pucks, basketballs, small cars, ramps, and Newton’s Cradle. Their observations and repeated trials will prove the laws of motions as well
as reinforce the concepts of inertia, gravity, acceleration, mass, force, and speed. They will also investigate and predict the behavior of the toys in a microgravity environment.
