Class Projects ... The Academic Hub

Your one-stop hub for all of our projects, learning experiences, and unit studies (and accompanying photo galleries.)  Follow the links below to share in our adventures in learning.

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Personal Narratives, Round 1

Check out our first published personal narratives for the year.  We worked on zooming in on a small moment, and revising our writing to include an interesting opening and as much "voice" as possible.

Click here to see our personal narratives.

The Pumpkin Project of 2009

What happens when you mix five pumpkins and twenty curious young mathematicians?  You wind up with a messy, fun day of experiments.  We first measured our pumpkins for weight, circumference, and number of creases.  Using this data, we predicted how many seeds we might find in each pumpkin.  Then we cut open our pumpkins, scooped out the seeds, and carefully counted every last seed.  To our surprise, the number of creases is the best indication of the number of seeds, not the size or weight!  (Pumpkins with more creases are older, and thus have more seeds.)  This was a great lesson in measurement, counting large numbers, and estimation.

Click here for photos of the Pumpkin Project.

The Secret Lives of Third Graders

Learn about how we published our own book, an amazing anthology of our personal narratives.

Click here.