

5th Grade Design Lives Here!
This week in Thinking Lab, our 5th graders begin the first of three OFFICIAL Design Lives Here Challenges. WQED has provided us with...
5th Grade Game Design
Students experiment with Makey Makey to explore game design. Watch the fun! Go to http://www.projectpixelpress.com/floors/ to download...


High Rise Challenge
Design Lives Here kicks off with a one-day challenge. With materials provided (paper, straws, string, tape, wooden skewers) build a tower...


5th Grade Storyboard and Start Filming
Students storyboard just like Pes, then get to snapping on their iPads using Stop Motion Studio App. Students substitute a flashlight to...


5th Grade Prepares for a Stop Motion Film
This week, we are finishing up our scenes made from found objects. The scenes will tell a story as our light source, the sun, moves...


5th Grade Week of December 1st
This week in Thinking Lab, fifth grade will be experimenting with shadows to discover the relationship between a light source and an...


5th Grade Goes Outside
How can we use shadows as artists and scientists? This week in Thinking Lab, fifth grade will be going out side to find shadows in our...


5th Grade Starts New Unit!
We started exploring our new Essential Question, "How do we use shadows as artists and scientists?". After our brief pre-assessment,...


5th Graders Continue Painting
This week, we continue painting onto our canvases. We will layer acryics to go over dried colors, add details, and show texture (both...