Saratoga Learning Center returned to the Learning Curve today and worked with Google Earth in conjunction with a research project focusing on the Civil War. They looked up locations of important Civil War battles and then pinned them to a map on Google Earth, along with some information and a picture. The pins they made were then saved and uploaded to Google Maps. Here is the result:
Kids from Saratoga Learning Center visited the Curve today and had the opportunity to study some insects under a digital microscope and then Record their findings on a Podcast! Afterwards they got to practice their insect animation techniques with Pivot Stickfigure Animator.
April showers bring May flowers! Join us this month as we celebrate spring with story times for little ones on Tuesday mornings at 10:30 and also by request! Featured titles for May include The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle and Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. Don’t forget to try out the stage in the Green Screen Theater with spring scenes such as flying a kite, swinging a piñata, and climbing a beanstalk!
On Tuesday, April 24th 2012, the Indiana Partnership for Young Writers visited the Learning Curve and used the Green Screen Theater to host a Young Writers Reading. 22 children spanning from Kindergarten to 7th Grade and from a plethora of schools in the Indianapolis area came to read some of their own poetry and stories.
Attached below are the recordings of each of the readers, organized chronologically and titled with the readers’ names. Due to posting limitations the recordings are under three separate blog posts. I apologize in advance for the inevitable wrong-spelling of someone’s name.
This week, fourth graders from IPS #99 visited the Learning Curve and observed some insects (encased in resin, that is) using digital microscopes. Then, students looked at some book illustrations of animals and their homes, and designed their own habitat using KidPix software. Below is an example of a habitat designed by fourth grader Amira.
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