2nd grade scientists creating our class anchor chart about magnetism! HAEST HCPSElemScience @HCPS_STEM #hcpsstemtober

This 2nd grade scholar is sharing her academic vocabulary word wall card after investigating how magnets make things move! HAEST HCPSElemScience @HCPS_STEM #hcpsstemtober

All of 4th grade came out for Day 4 of Hole and Hill LTI as Mr. Marcus dug the hole! Students made observational sketches in their science notebooks and will follow the changes that occur over the next few weeks! HAEST HCPSElemScience Hillsborough Schools @HCPS_STEM

3rd grade is investing measurable properties by finding the length, mass and volume of similar objects! HAEST HCPSElemScience

Students in 3rd have learned about measurable properties and used many tools to compare size. Today they created anchor charts to sum it all up! HCPSElemScience HAEST

Putting the finishing touches on our STEM Fair projects! This has been my favorite year yet! Birds, plants, rockets(balloons) and more! Students have been observing changes, recording and analyzing data! HCPSElemScience HAEST GiftedHCPS

Students using handmade windsocks to help observe the wind. Students then recorded their observations in their science notebooks! HAEST HCPSElemScience

Students using a pinwheel and a digital anemometer to observe the wind. Not pictured a traditional anemometer we built! We love exploring wind! HAEST HCPSElemScience

We are learning about rocks in 2nd grade. At the end of our lesson today, we cracked open a geode to observe the properties ! You can see how much they loved it! HAEST HCPSElemScience

This is the favorite game of my students. I play it with my 2nd graders all the way up to 5th, its difficulty adjusts as they gain more skills. They beg to play it! The rules and how you win are different every time you play and even change during the game!

Thankful for our HAEST grant for a container garden! Students have been enjoying the process! We are learning so much!

Planted a sweet potato in water today! When it sends off slips we will plant them! Today we will plant our hydroponic garden. We have learned all about what plants and seeds need, plant parts & what they do, and how they make food. @wearehaest @hcpselemscience

Students in Mrs. Velez’s 3rd grade dual language class created videos on Flip of gardens at home in Spanish and English for their new to the country classmates to help them explore the science standards they are working on! HAEST HCPSElemScience

Students made a claim about how plants respond to stimuli and designed a test to see how plants will respond to light! We will check them again next week! HCPSElemScience HAEST

Today we built high houses for the container gardens to aid with pest control. They will come off when the plants are more established. They are made from the lids of the containers and some tulle. HAEST HCPSElemScience

2nd grade started learning about life cycles by investigating models and putting them in the order they thought they grew and changed! HCPSElemScience HAEST