Today, we talked about habit 6, synergy. Synergizing is about working together, sharing results, and collaborating for a shared opportunity.
We partcipated in an activity called O.R.E.O. (Our Really Exciting Online project) that schools from all around the world are also participating in. The goal of the project was to obtain a class average of Oreos that could be stacked in a single stack. Taking turns, each child in the class stacked oreos, one by one, until his/her stack toppled. Our average was 14 and our highest stack had 27 oreos! We talked about factors involved in the varying numbers of each stack and we talked about the concept of an average. Once the activity ends on October 1st, we will check the results page and see what other schools found out. It looks like the average from all of the schools that have participated so far is 18 oreos.
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| Carefully stacking |
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| And, there it goes... |
Exciting Opportunity
This week, we had an exciting opportunity brought to us. Mr. Joseph chose Mrs. Kaufmann and I's classes to help him with a special project involving schools and pollution. Our classes will be exploring how Virginia schools (Beaverdam specifically) are polluting the Chesapeake Bay and what we can do to help slow or stop it. Our students will be creating models to show how this pollution is affecting the Bay and they will develop ideas for what can be done. In the process of working on this challenge for Mr. Joseph, we will learn about Virginia's natural resources and the Chesapeake Bay watershed. So far, we have made a list of questions that we need to answer in order to answer the questions being put to us! Stayed tuned for updates!
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