Economics

As you know we were working on a economics project the last few weeks! All the third grade students at Margaret Beeks had a blast with this project! 

We started by separating into committees.... Research and Marketing teams. Each third grade class split into two groups. We then divided and concurred. 

The Research team searched for pencil prices, types of pencils, surveyed the school, and decided on the price of the product. 

The Marketing team split into sub committees: two commercial committee's, flyers, and posters.

Once, the investor (Mrs. Kramer) had bought the pencils the students went to work. Mrs. Kramer and a few third graders from each class sold all of the hundreds of pencils in the multipurpose room before school every day for four days! They were a HUGE hit and we ended up selling at 25 cents a pencil, 165 dollars worth of pencils! After paying the investor, (AKA, Sue Kramer) the third graders profited 75 dollars! They then bought food for the Christmas store! 

They did such a great job and were pumped about learning about economics!!! I can not wait to do this project again next year!!! 

Virginia Standard SOL 3.8

 

The student will recognize that because people and regions cannot produce everything they want, they specialize in producing some things and trade for the rest.

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Virginia Standard SOL 3.9

 

The student will identify examples of making an economic choice and will explain the idea of opportunity cost (what is given up when making a choice).

Have a great week!

SCIENCE!!!

We made Slime at our fall party! The kids had a lot of fun, we will revisit this experiment during our matter unit. 

If you want to try it at home here is a link..

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/glue-borax-gak

Caroline also made some delicious treats! So cute!!!

We also used this packet....for some candy corn science!!!!

 

The kids had an absolute BLAST!!!!

 Hope you enjoy the pictures! Have a great weekend!

Food Chains

Our last science SOL was food chains. The students had so much fun throughout this unit!!

Virginia Standard SOL 3.5

The student will investigate and understand relationships among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key concepts include:

a) producer, consumer, decomposer;

b) herbivore, carnivore, omnivore; and

c) predator and prey.

We started science centers during this unit and they kids did AMAZING! We had five to six rounds and we rotated through them in two or three days. 

The first day we watched the brain pop video on food chains....

We then played the game scoot with a partner and practiced putting different aquatic and terrestrial food chain cards together. We switched every sixty seconds and they LOVED this!!!

We also practice how to sort decompser, producer and consumer. 

An amazing parent from Miss Lauth's room came from VT to teach the students more about food chains and food webs. This was very fun and allowed the kids to create a food web using yarn and links. They had a blast and it was very interactive!

The wonderful TRT, Alecia made these Aurasma's for us! The kids loved them!

You can learn more about Aurasma here....

They also mastered this app......

AND sorted some more....

It was a very fun, hands on unit and they all did very well on the end assessment!!!!!

Have a great week!!!