IMPACT Highlights
Updated 12/15/2016
Lower Elementary
Owl study
Ecosystem unit - made eco-systems out of liter bottles (w/ actual plants, snails, etc.)
Leaf study - identifying trees by leaves and I-pads
Solar unit - made solar ovens
Nature scavenger hunts
Journaling
Upper Elementary
Observing and logging the effects of rain and flooding on various areas of our campus
Making Native American dwellings
Making animal footprints
Bug Detectives
Mapping the creek area
Simple Machines Scavenger Hunt (finding examples of inclined planes, levers, pulleys, etc. outside)
Nature journaling
Exploring the creek
Nature hikes/Kindergarten activities with Kindergarten Buddies
Middle School
English-looking for and drawing different parts of speech we find in nature
History-identified and sketched physical features and landforms found around the school
Identifying & sketching human & natural systems found around school
Science - modeling the vast distances of space (finding scale distance from Earth to the Sun in the parking lot)
Balloon Rockets (form a hypothesis and then run experiments to see which type of balloon flies faster and farther)
Students made sundials
High School
Nature sketches and reflections - the students turn a "scribble/line" into a nature sketch and then write about it
Film Canister Rocket – Students mixed cornstarch, water, and Alka-Seltzer together in a film canister and made it explode!
Leaf Study with Coach Rogers
Color Scavenger Hunt
German scavenger Hunt with Mr. Vandegriff’s German class
Creation Scavenger Hunt with Mr. Ange's Biology class