We started with Gratitude Circle and a game of "Warm Wind Blows for Anyone Who..." (person in center has to say something true about themselves and anyone who it is also true for finds a new cone). I challenged them to think of something true having to do with gravity since this week is all about gravity. Then we discussed, “How do plants sense gravity to know which way is up in order to grow roots down and stems up?” We talked about statoliths (tiny dense grains of starch th

We began the morning with Gratitude Circle (saying something we are grateful for this morning) and then played a Name Game to learn each other's names. This week’s theme is Gravity so we began with a discussion about what gravity is and how no one knows why it occurs but theories throughout history have existed to try and explain it. We started with Aristotle’s observations and theories and how/why Galileo’s theories superseded them. We also explored the role air resistance p

After Gratitude Circle, we discussed why Polar Days and Polar Nights occur (6 months of darkness and 6 months of constant daytime on Earth’s poles). Next we explored what might happen to wildlife in Georgia if this were to occur here and played a Polar Nights and Days relay. There were 6 parts of a food chain on the field that they had to find and put in order from the sun to producers to consumers. Then we finished an activity from yesterday designing a fantasy nocturnal ani

After starting with Gratitude Circle, we played a game of “Daytime/ Nighttime” (similar to red light green light but with a strategic twist involving a nocturnal predator owl and diurnal squirrels). Then we explored different ways of tracking time throughout history (such as obelisks, sundials, water clocks, mechanical and quartz clocks as well as modern atomic clocks). And they made their own sundials. After snack break and practicing their original play, we discussed what

We started with Gratitude Circle and played Bibbity Bibbity Bop. Then we did the first step in an art project to create their own constellation. As the paint dried, we discussed what a star and constellation is and acted out four constellation myths (Ursa Major and Minor, Bootes, Scorpius and Cassiopeia) as they found and marked the constellation on their “June/July 2026 Sky Chart”. They will take the chart home with them so they can try and find the constellations we learne

After Gratitude Circle (where we go around the circle and say something we are thankful for today), we discussed moon phases and played Simon Says Moon Phases since today focuses on the Moon. Then we talked about why the Moon glows. To emphasize that it is a reflection of light from the Sun, they completed laser puzzle challenges. They had three mirrors and a goal and as a team they had to figure out how to reflect the laser to hit the goal. Next we discussed the Giant Impac

We began the morning with a Name game to learn each others’ name. Then we discussed bioluminescence, how it occurs and looked at some bioluminescent jellyfish, worms and fungi local to Georgia (for example the Hawkinsville Glow Worm, Jack O’ Lantern mushrooms and Appalachian glow worms). Then they made their own scratch art over a glow in the dark page. Some added acrylic paint over it to make if more colorful. Then we discussed a few local nocturnal pollinators (such as Cli

Today was all about center of gravity so after Gratitude Circle, they did a Tower Challenge (building the tallest free-standing tower they could with limited resources). Then we went to check the results from our transpiration experiment. Next we looked at how gravity affects our body and tried some center of gravity challenges like “with feet against the wall, don’t move your feet or bend your knees. Can you pick up an object off the floor right in front of you?” Then at 3 s

Gravity Day 4 We started with Gratitude Circle and a game of Eagle Eye. Then we discussed how solar and lunar tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon and they made models with the Sun, Moon and Earth to show how high and low tides occur due to gravitational pull. Next we played “High tide, Low tide” (everyone starts in center circle as water droplets all together representing the ocean, eyes closed, I position a child as the Moon on one side of the fiel

We started with Gratitude Circle and a Cosmic Hunt using what we learned about the hierarchy of celestial bodies from yesterday. Then we discussed, “How do plants sense gravity to know which way is up in order to grow roots down and stems up?” We talked about statoliths (tiny dense grains of starch that fall inside a plant cell sending signals to let the plant know which way is “down” and which is “up”. Then we played Statolith Scramble (each plant cell which was everyone e