Conder ALERT students solved math puzzles and algebraic equations today. Due to a virtual field trip and a strings performance for the 5th graders, the 4th graders ended up being the "math coaches" for the 5th graders on the math puzzles today. We introduced Spanish and Mediterranean style architecture today. After my introduction; which included a little review of Spanish colonies and explorers from 4th grade social studies, looking at a few maps, and a quick overview of a few house examples: I barely had to teach anymore because they started teaching each other. They immediately started making connections and asking/answering each others questions. With very minimal help from me. They included the weather/climate of regions near the equator, geographic concepts like Central America and the Phillipines being on the opposide sides of the world, (therefore it took the Spanish longer to get to the Phillipines) how the American's took over the Phillipines after the Spanish-American War, air pressure - which came up when we were talking about the air vents in the attics, and arches from our arch experiment way back a month or so ago. Later in the day they tried their hand at line style sketches, a few examples are included in the pictures below. Then we explored shape strength, they figured out that while squares and rectangles are popular shapes for construction, they aren't very stable. They tend to sway and bend at the corners. They discovered the triangles are super strong and humans can make squares and rectangles stronger by building triangles inside them.
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