Learning & Teaching

Another hands-on, thinking/learning activity took place in science last week. Objective: Design a parachute that falls slowly by selecting the best material to slow the descent of the attached, jumper pig to the ground. Miniature, plastic pigs harnessed to paper parachutes plummet from the second floor landing. Their drops are timed, the goal being to [...]

A student gushed to me last Friday. “Ms. McP is the best teacher ever!” What elicited such enthusiasm from a fifth grader, you ask? Well, this particular comment was in reference to the annual Egg Drop Competition conducted by Ms. McP, science teacher extraordinaire. Every October, perhaps to save our goey little uncooked friends from [...]