| Welcome to my website. I have truly enjoyed teaching over the past seven years in the regular classroom. During that time I began developing this site. For the 2008-2009 school year I will be taking the position as Discovery Lab Director for 4th and 5th grade at Grenada Upper Elementary. I am going from 27 students to about 700. For my past students, parents, teachers and other visitors, I am going to keep some of my original website pages with photos and other important links. However I am going to dedicate my site now for the teachers and students of the Discovery Lab. I will have an individual page for each Discovery unit with important information and photos. Check out the remodel photos of the lab. |
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Mrs. Melody Shaw Discovery Lab Director Grenada Upper Elementary Grenada, Mississippi www.grenadaupper.com 2008-2009 TEAM DISCOVERY |
| Discovery Lab |
Investigations lead to amazing Discoveries. The students in the
Discovery Lab will become scientists in order to discover new things
as well as to understand more about the world in which we live.
Students will become familiar with past discoveries as well as the most
current science news.
Each unit will require the students to become investigators, problem
solvers and explorers. We will search for evidence, make predictions
for the future and try to find reasons for past events. There will be a
new unit every nine weeks. Each unit will have an overall theme with
interrelated objectives from Life Science, Earth and Space Science,
and Physical Science from the Mississippi Science Framework.
Students will explore structure and function in living systems,
reproduction and heredity, behavior, populations and ecosystems,
diversity, and adaptations of organisms. Students will investigate
properties and changes of properties in matter, motions, forces,
transfer of energy, structure of the Earth system, Earth’s history, and
Earth in the solar system. Throughout the teaching process, inquiry,
safety skills, the scientific method process, measuring, use of scientific
equipment, current events, environmental factors, and hands-on
activities will be emphasized. (MSF 2010)
Discovery Lab will become scientists in order to discover new things
as well as to understand more about the world in which we live.
Students will become familiar with past discoveries as well as the most
current science news.
Each unit will require the students to become investigators, problem
solvers and explorers. We will search for evidence, make predictions
for the future and try to find reasons for past events. There will be a
new unit every nine weeks. Each unit will have an overall theme with
interrelated objectives from Life Science, Earth and Space Science,
and Physical Science from the Mississippi Science Framework.
Students will explore structure and function in living systems,
reproduction and heredity, behavior, populations and ecosystems,
diversity, and adaptations of organisms. Students will investigate
properties and changes of properties in matter, motions, forces,
transfer of energy, structure of the Earth system, Earth’s history, and
Earth in the solar system. Throughout the teaching process, inquiry,
safety skills, the scientific method process, measuring, use of scientific
equipment, current events, environmental factors, and hands-on
activities will be emphasized. (MSF 2010)
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