Food Chain Fun

Trying to arrange ourselves into complete food chains.

By Kora & Mustafa

We were in the classroom learning about food chains. Then Ms. Deim came up with a fun activity. To create our own food chain! We were each assigned something to draw that was part of the food chain.

Then we had to organize ourselves into food chain groups.  We had to decide what parts went with what food chain.  We each had to share our presentations with the class. Then one group shared with the class. One food chain was completed! They were colorful and pretty like the spider.  This was a fun project, hope we do more activities like this one!

Another group has finished their food chain.
They did a really nice job. 

We are drawing an animal and putting information on that animal on our drawing.
They are going to be placed on the bathroom doors that are in our classroom.

What Beak?

Space Pods

For our summative assessment for Sharing the Planet, we got to create space pods. We got a big piece of paper and we drew a great big space pod with our group.

First we pretended that Earth was blown up and we had to make a space pod to survive forever in space. It was super fun to see what everyone and their group drew for their space pods. There were hospitals, storage areas, driver seats, gardens, food courts, pools, bedrooms, workout rooms, and graveyards, and even more things.

These are pictures of our space pods.  They show that we understood the central idea of the unit, that living things are interdependent with each other.  This is because we needed to make sure we had enough to eat, and enough to take care of the plants and animals that gave us food.  We also had to make sure we stayed fit and healthy!

By Nikoletta and Gabby

Food Chains!

For the unit Sharing the Planet we were learning about food chains. To start, we had to make a list of any animals we could think of.  Then we switched marker colors and had to write down what each of those animals eats.  Then we had to switch colors again and write down what those animals eat.

Then, we each got a stuffed animal and had to find what we connect to. For example Amelia had a bear, Anthony had a small fish, Elana had a big fish and Claire had a fox. The food web would be the big fish eats the small fish and the fox eats the big fish that is eaten by the bear. 

Finally, we went back to our seats and tried to connect the things we had written on our boards to create a full food web!

By Elana

Plant Experiments

For our plant experiments we had to try to grow a plant any way we wanted.  It could be grown a different way than normal, like without soil or something.  Eleanor and Jillian grew their plant in popcorn and after a week it grew mold and by the next week it smelled so bad, we had to throw it out in the outside trash can. 

Gus and Josh grew their seed in the dark with water and soil and it grew taller than the one with all the things it needs to live. We found out that they were leaning towards the cabinet opining and storing it like a cactus for water.  

Estee tried to grow hers in Cheerios, but that didn’t work.  Barry tried growing his with just sunlight, no water or soil, but that didn’t work.  When he added water a week later, it did start to grow!  Katie tried to grow hers using hand sanitizer instead of water but that really didn’t work!

We learned that plants really do need water and sunlight to grow, but the growing material can be different.  Even the seeds that grew really tall in the dark cabinet ended up dying without sunlight.

 By Jillian and Eleanor

Healthy Habits for Humans

The game gave you alerts if you made a good or bad decision.

When you see your menus make good decisions.

When you click on your food feature the right things you need.

The game my plate blast off was basically a game to get us excited and ready for our summative assessment for our PYP Circle of Life.  The game helped us with seeing how if we were to ever go up into space pods we would be eating healthy in space. The game also featured a wonderful version of foods for each category including Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and you had to include sixty minutes of exercise to stay fit.  To succeed in the game and make it to planet power you had to put in the right amount of grains, protein, fruit, vegetables, dairy, and they food category’s had to make the right amount of fuel without going over 1800 fuel points.

Overall, the game was an awesome game!

By Estee

Plant Inquiry

This topic was looking at pictures of plants.  Our homework was to go home and take pictures of plants around our house and neighborhood.  We could either print the pictures, email them to Ms. Diem, or we were allowed to bring in our iPods or iPads to look at them.

When we went to computers, we had to try to figure out what kind of plant it was, were it was from, and what does it need to survive.  Looking at the pictures that we brought in on our iPods or iPads helped us answer the questions when we look online.

By: Claire And Amelia