11-18-13 Meeting

Today's meeting was pretty much dedicated to the making of Egg Car for the parent meeting next week.  We did a sort of debrief of the fieldtrip with the kids to see what they enjoyed and what improvements they thought the trip needed.  We don't want to give away the final designs but here are some pictures of the students working on their Egg Cars.....

 As you can see, our groups have many varied desgin ideas!  Can not wait to see the results of the races and if the eggs "live" on Nov. 25th!!
Come and join us to find out the winners ;)

IMSA FUSION Fieldtrip 11-13-13

IMSA FUSION FIELDTRIP!!!

Everyone loved the trip to the IMSA Campus!  Here is an outline of what was experienced by our students.....

-Math lesson on Radioactive Decay of Skittles using graphing calculators!!
-Dissection of a Squid including extracting the beak and getting to see the brain!!
-A Delicious Lunch
-A Q & A about the campus and classes with current students
-A tour of campus with current students... including a view of the dorms!!!

The following are some pictures of the Math Activity and the Squid Dissection:

 Everyone getting on their lab coats, gloves and goggles!!

We have our squid.

We named our squid.

We are ready to go!!

We are learning the anatomical parts of a squid!  The function of each part also.

Having fun as we learn proper dissecting procedures.  We also got to identify the major organs in a squid!

 

Overall, it was a wonderful day and a great experience.  Thank you to the Galesburg Education Foundation and parents for their contributions to our travel needs, IMSA FUSION Teachers and Coordinator and the IMSA Staff in Aurora for hosting us. 

Parent Night has been moved!!!

Just a quick note.  We are going to have Parent Night from 4-5 on Monday the 25th of November.  So sorry but the kids are not ready yet to show off their cars!  We will finish those tonight and be ready for next week!!  Invitations will be coming home this week. 

**On a side note I will be posting about the field trip later today!  Thanks so much.