We continued our body systems expedition with a case study on diabetes. We spent a few days building background knowledge on this disease and reading bio's of children that live with it. We then held a skype call with a diabetic who shared his experiences of living with the condition for over twenty years. He then fielded lots of thoughtful questions from the crew.
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| If you look carefully you can see our diabetes expert speaker projected on the screen |
Students are wrapping up the body systems expedition by creating brochures that detail a particular part of their learning from the last six weeks:
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| A proud brochure producer |
We are now in the final phase of our research paper project, too. Students have completed note-taking and are now drafting their reports. This past week we explored strong introductions and conclusions for this type of writing and we reviewed proper bibliographic form. Here are a few crew members hard at work on their papers:
This past Wednesday we took another step in our bluebird box-making when the Castle Rock POST ladies came back and guided us through the sanding and staining process. The boxes are now ready to be installed when spring weather appears.
