IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMYELEMENTARY
SCHOOLMAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO

• CASA Engineering Institute for Teachers
• November 5, 2005
• By
• Irelly Vélez, Science Teacher
• Yaidí Vargas, Computer Teacher

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AIC STUDENTS

• Grades 4th, 5th and 6th.
• Book Science, Scott Foresman
• Interested in everything around them.
• They like to explore, collect data and make
  experiments.

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Activities

• Discussed concepts about meteorology from the
  text book.
• Students collected notices from the news paper
  about the hurricanes that passed threw the
  States. (Example Katrina)
• Students gathered information about the
  hurricanes that affected Puerto Rico during the
  last years.

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Activities

• Students made a model of a hurricane and a
  tornado.
• They identified weather instruments.

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Activities

• Students studied how clouds form. They made a
  lab to make a model of how a cloud forms.
• They classified clouds for a week.

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Activities

• They made a model of a thermometer to learn how
  it works.
• They kept daily temperatures and rain record.

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Activities

• They made a model of a satellite.
• They gathered information about weather,
  hurricanes, tornados, radars and satellites and
  prepared posters.

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Activities

• They made a weather forecast.
• They made a news report about weather and science
  notices.
• They integrated technology by using the computer
  laboratory
• They learned to make bar graphics in Excel
  (Temp., rain, hurricane categories)
• They learned to make tables in Excel using
  weather information.
• They used Word to make their presentations about
  weather patterns.

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Activities

• Conference offered by
• Adalberto Trabal , Director of
• Agencia Estatal para el Manejo de Emergencias
  y Administración de Desastres
• Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico

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A World in Motion

• Science Club special proyect The Skimmer

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Further activities

• A world in motion
• Jet Toys Challenge
• Steel Can Rover Challenge
• A weather station
• Field trips

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Student ExperienceStephanie Vélez -6th grade
student, member of the Science Club.

• Thank You