Caves

Welcome back in the New Year!

Our first Summers-Knoll theme of 2010 is Caves. This will be another science-oriented theme for our room. We'll be taking our study of caves (our speleology) in several directions, looking at different types of cave dwellers, the formation of caves, and the underlying structure of our planet. Today, we watched the Planet Earth episode "Caves" with Mrs. Carpenter's class. In class this week, we'll be doing some individual experiments in preparation for a group project: building a scaled model of the earth's layers. Both at school and at home, the kids will be working on a small-scale research project on the cave system or cave-dwelling organism of their choice. This will be more closely supervised and structured than our previous research this year, with a strong focus on the stages of developing a research project. It's going to be a great theme, I think!