Get Out Holyoke Public Schools 5th Grade

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Get Out!Holyoke Public Schools 5th Grade
Inquiry Science through the Arts with Enchanted
Circle Theater and Hitchcock Center for the
Environment funded by the Massachusetts Cultural
Councils Creative Schools Program
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Making Observations

• Finding a woolly
• bear caterpillar
• I didnt know it was alive!
• Will it move?
• I wonder what it will turn into?

The most interesting thing I saw outside was a
woolly bear caterpillar because it was so
adorable. Shayla
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Developing Sensory Awareness Listening
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I was hearing nature making sounds Daniel

• Sound Mapping
• Birds chirping
• Rustling of leaves
• Hammer banging
• Cars passing by
• Men speaking Spanish
• Trees wooshering

A lot of birds come when youre really quiet
Nathan
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Sharing observations
Looking closer
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Asking scientific questions about living
organisms
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What does a crayfish pinch with its pinchers?
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Designing experiments to answer original
questions
Collecting and interpreting data
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Drawing conclusions based on data
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Interpreting and Communicating
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Collaborating
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Oral Presentation and Critical Response

• Practicing physical
• acting skills

and vocal acting skills
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Communicating Findings Presentations will
be scientific visual fun!
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Reflecting

• When I heard
• the wind wooshering
• in the woods
• that was interesting
• because I liked the noise
• and how it made me feel.
• -- Sabrina

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What Are You Doing?

• Asking questions
• Experimenting
• Observing
• Comparing
• Discovering
• Designing
• Gathering data
• Analyzing
• Handling animals
• Cooperating
• Writing
• Listening
• Counting

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Nature for me is like living with energy and
living free. Daniel
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• Bird nest
• high in the tree
• crayfish
• still
• doing
• nothing
• Groundhog hole
• small and dark
• crayfish
• still
• doing
• nothing
• The wind
• blowing soft, moving leaves
• crayfish
• still
• doing
• nothing

The crayfish did nothing!
by Oswaldo
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• Birds fly.
• Groundhog holes.
• Stems going around the trees.
• Rolly polly pill bugs going on the wood.
• Birds say toot, toot, toot.
• Kids screaming around the field.
• Pine tree has a little smell.
• Come on kids
• Get out and play! Get out.
• Elba

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• Gathering data
• Enjoyable
• Time to experiment
• Outstanding
• Understanding how to ask questions
• Time to observe
• Kristen

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Ashley
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Connecting kids to their watersheds and their
imaginations through poetry and art
Documentation by Carol Berner River of Words
Regional Coordinator

For more information www.riverofwords.org
cberner_at_email.smith.edu