Thursday, February 26, 2015

Field Trip to Lewis and Clark Discovery Center

Tomorrow is the big day for the 4th. The final touches are going on to the keel boats and today they decide which to take-- a few or all. We experimented and found out the latex spray works great. Each will get a dousing and then we can float them!

The classroom looks like a tornado of thin cardboard right now as the finishing touches are getting done. With the final bits getting done, the kids had to judge their work based on a scale of 1 to 4. Those numbers represent 25% to 100%. Each student had to describe 4 examples that prove or support the score given with evidence from the keel boat construction. They are very accurate at assessing their work. It was turned in on loose leaf.

Here is the link for the Discovery Center.
Lewis and Clark Discovery Center

Also, yesterday I showed them two sculptures of Sacajawea that are in the Lewiston area. One is located in Pioneer Park and the other (pictured below) is down at the river at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater. It would be a fun trip in the summer to do--ride bikes and find them both.

About midway through the trip, we joined the Salmon River as it rushed ...

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