The Futures Channel

A great resource for for real world math and science videos for free: http://www.thefutureschannel.com/

Look to the Stars

Third grade students practice their astronomy skills in the district Skylab. Third grade students will spend the spring learning about the Sun, Moon and Stars using FOSS kits and web quests aligned with Minnesota State Science standards.

Live Eagle Nest Cam

Great resource for teachers: The Raptor Resource Project (www.raptorresource.org) brings you the Decorah Eagles from atop their tree at the fish hatchery in Decorah, Iowa.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/decorah-eagles

Magnet Schools of Minnesota Merit Award now availalbe

Magnet Schools of Minnesota Merit Award
And
Magnet Schools of Minnesota Excellence in Equity and Achievement Award
2011
Application Guidelines

Application Deadline: July 1st, 2011
¢ Schools will be notified of award status during the week of Sept. 12, 2011.
¢ Awards will be presented at the MSMN conference on Oct. 7, 2011.
For more information contact:
Shane Schmeichel
President, MSMN
Shane.Schmeichel@district196.org

The RERUN Method

Today third grade scientists use the RERUN method to write their crayfish investigation conclusions. we use sentence starters to get them all writing!
¢ Recall what you did

Our class completed a crayfish investigation

¢ Explain why you did this lab and what you were trying to find out.

We wanted to know¦

¢ Results- what happened, here is where you report your data, this is where you share if your data supported a hypothesis you had

Our results showed¦

¢ Uncertainty- Any errors in the investigation that you could not control (for example, if your stop watch did not work) or anything that did not go well- perhaps your crayfish did not move, or you changed crayfish mid investigation for some reason.

One thing we were unsure of¦

¢ New questions or new information you learned

We still want to know¦