{"id":113,"date":"2013-11-19T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=113"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:37:50","slug":"november-19-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2013\/11\/19\/november-19-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"November 19, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was so busy I didn&#8217;t even have time to get a post out to you&#8230;sorry!<\/p>\n<p>We ended last week with a GREAT science experience!!!<\/p>\n<p>Previously in the week we had established things that float and things that sink. We spent a lot of time establishing our steps for conducting science experiments and we review the steps every time we conduct a science experiment. \u00a0Here are our steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. We <strong>ask questions<\/strong>. \u00a0(Very important&#8212;get that brain working!)<\/p>\n<p>2. We<strong> make a prediction<\/strong>. \u00a0What do we think will happen? \u00a0Why? \u00a0How? \u00a0Do we already know something that will help us with our predictions? (Prior knowledge and connections)<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0We\u00a0<strong>do\u00a0<\/strong>our experiment.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0We\u00a0<strong>look, see, observe<\/strong> what happened.<\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0We decide what we\u00a0<strong>learned<\/strong> from our experiment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The students are very focused with these steps. \u00a0Last week as we were reviewing our steps before an experiment, one of the students said, &#8220;These are like when you read a book to us. \u00a0You always make us think of a<strong> question<\/strong> when you read the title and then we have to make a <strong>prediction<\/strong> about what might happen. \u00a0Then after you read us the story you ask us what we<strong> learned. \u00a0<\/strong>Amazing connections!!<\/p>\n<p>I will post more later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was so busy I didn&#8217;t even have time to get a post out to you&#8230;sorry! We ended last week with a GREAT science experience!!! Previously in the week we had established things that float and things that sink. We spent a lot of time establishing our steps for conducting science experiments and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}