Inquiry-based learning is an open-ended approach to learning guided by students through questions, research, and/or curiosity. #criticalthinking #teaching #inquirybasedlearning #studentagency bit.ly/2fy0Wxq

4th grade starting the Thanksgiving Tang Math Challenge. Greg Tang

Students helping each other with division. They asked if they could help their classmates. Promoting a peer supportive environment.

Eager to elevate #MisterRogers' blueprints for learning during PETE & C together with such amazing school leaders as Dr. Todd Keruskin, Dr. Sue Mariani, and Laura Jacob, and alongside fellow keynoters Jimmy Casas and Dr. Adolph Doc Brown|Psychologist + Thought Leader! #WhenYouWonder at #PETEandC

Thank you for an informative PD on a Saturday morning. There is always something I can immediately take back into my classroom. Good reflection of my own teaching. Looking forward to this Saturday as well.

Looking to connect with a storm chaser for a virtual classroom visit. If anyone has any leads or connections on this endeavor I would appreciate it!

Great webinar tonight presented by PSEA Center for Professional Learning on Tech Tools to Facilitate Student Collaboration. Thank you Stephan Hogan @Kmlaffs

Students using Stop Motion Animation to simulate the particles in matter changing to different states.

4th grade celebrating Dr. Seuss and Read Across America in science class. Today we did a Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Activity to determine what state of matter is oobleck, made oobleck, and listened to a reading of Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss.

Students are learning about the physical properties of matter in science. Today they experimented with electrical conductivity by making a water piano with Makey Makey. Maria Fajt Makey Makey

After a long year and as testing season approaches, it's important to remember

4th grade started incubating our chicken eggs. Hatch date should be May 24th or 25th. Thank you Rent The Chicken

"Kids in early elementary can engage in science and engineering to make sense of the world around them and solve problems, and we need to give them the opportunity to do it." @AlleghenyIU3 Next Generation Science Standards #STEM #literacy #earlychildhood #library #PennSEL ngs.wested.org/kindergarten/

4th grade incubated chicken eggs Rent The Chicken

Students learning how energy is transferred during a collision through a bumper coaster lab Mystery Science

4th grade making circuits with potatoes.

Please consider donating to my project. I hope to bring flexible seating options to the classroom to support social and emotional learning while establishing a safe and comfortable learning environment. donorschoose.org/project/4th-gr…

Just about everyone in the Shaler community turned out tonight for this amazing event celebrating #143Day and finding ways to imagine, care, and connect with their neighbors during #RemakeDays. Wow! So much #kindness, joy, and learning.

Spark Wonder This Year with Gregg Behr

4th Graders using Play-Doh to plot earthquakes and volcanoes while learning about the Ring of Fire.