STUDENTS EXPERIENCE a Wild and Windy Month of Review by Jet Burnham | [email protected]
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May 2017 | Vol. 4 Iss. 05 FREE STUDENTS EXPERIENCE a wild and windy month of review By Jet Burnham | [email protected] t was a wild and windy month of review when Ia mountain man and a TV meteorologist joined students at Arcadia Elementary to review for their year-end testing. “Our science and social studies curriculum allows us to use hands-on projects, technology, field trips and in-school assemblies to keep it interesting,” said fourth-grade teacher Kathy Hommes, who arranged to have the guests visit. “We are preparing for our year-end assessments, and we will be using all of these resources to review and prepare.” Mountain Man Scott “Grizzly” Sorensen refreshed lessons from the social studies curriculum for fourth-grade students as he shared the details of the lives of mountain men. Sorensen brought stacks of animal furs and challenged students to identify the hides. Students answered Sorensen’s questions about famous trappers with confidence even though that social studies unit was taught at the beginning of the year, said fourth-grade teacher Kellie Janes. The fourth-graders were not taken in by Sorensen’s wild stories; they spotted his yarn Mountain Man Scott Sorensen tests fourth-graders on their knowledge of Utah trap- Meteorologist Sterling Poulson talks with students about weather forecasting. (Jet about a deer riding a bike as a tall tale. Some pers and traders. (Jet Burnham/City Journals) Burnham/City Journals) classes wrote their own tall tales. Students in Janes’ class wrote papers contrasting modern living with that of mountain men. KUTV brought his mobile weather lab to the classification, students took part in an animal found in Utah. The Museum on the Move Students were impressed with Sorensen’s school to show how his understanding of the scavenger hunt, matching characteristics to brought their fossil samples for a hands-on animal calls and were thrilled when he set off water cycle and geography enables him to animal families. review with the students. A trip to the Living a beaver trap and fired a rifle. forecast weather patterns. He told the students Dr. Celia Jabakumar, principal at Arcadia, Planet Aquarium was planned to review the Teachers and volunteers provided hands- he has been tracking weather daily for 20 encourages teachers to utilize field trips and water cycle in a real-life application. on activities for students to experience the life years. guest speakers to supplement their teaching, Before the end of the year, Hommes said of early Utah settlers. They took turns churning “If you want to do something and do it squeezing in enrichment activities as often as they plan to take part in an activity sponsored by butter (which took three hours), square dancing well, you need to learn about it,” he told they can. the Water Conservation Association. Getting in the gym and stamping leather keychains students. “Go to school, learn more about it, “It makes for a well-rounded experience a glimpse into the past at the Taylorsville with metal tools and a mallet. and then, after you get out of school, learn for these kids,” said Jabakumar. “There’s more Bennion Heritage Center is another field trip Students also sewed their own possibility more.” to elementary school than the sit-down-and- teachers have scheduled. bags, small pouches slung over one shoulder to Poulson reviewed the process of the learn-stuff.” She wants them to realize there’s Jabakumar’s goal is to help the students keep bullets and gunpowder easily accessible water cycle with students playing the role of a purpose to it. understand that what they are learning in to a mountain man. air and water molecules. He then performed Various field trips have been used to elementary school relates to their future. She As a fun way to review units on extreme science experiments to help them understand reinforce lessons from the Utah-focused hopes they appreciate the opportunities the weather and the water cycle, students watched air pressure. curriculum for fourth-graders. They visited teachers are able to provide. episodes of “Bill Nye the Science Guy” and Teachers prepared games to review other Murray Nature Center to study Utah wetlands. “Hopefully they walk out of here saying, played cloud identification games as a class. subjects that will be covered in April’s SAGE At the Museum of Natural History, they ‘oh, there’s method to this madness. They want Meteorologist Sterling Poulson from testing. 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That The Taylorsville Team to 17th century Venice, Italy, and the inclusion excluded all tales with a male hero for Disney of the term “Fairy” into stories—to the modern movies.” take on the fairy tale—beginning with Disney’s The stories, according to Baumgartner, and CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Bryan Scott “Snow White” to the television monster-slayer how they’re crafted and even what lesson is [email protected] “Grimm”—highlighting differences in language emphasized were heavily influenced from as far and emphasis in the story of Rapunzel. away as Turkey which was bringing the Arabian EDITOR: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in the Nights tales through trade, as well as the French Tori La Rue area of Kassel, Germany, in the late 18th century. 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