Thinking Third Grade

Third graders looking to connect with other students and share innovative ideas.

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Thank you #greatlakesenergy for the classroom grant to purchase #littleBits We are so excited to start the engineering challenges! #coding

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Ss learn about the life cycle of a trout at the Oden Fish Hatchery today. #thirdgrade #fish #lifecycle #odenfishhatchery

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Impromptu book signing with @SarvinderN today after she presented on one of her children’s books: Lines. #thirdgrade #hsfotb

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We were so excited to meet @SarvinderN today! She inspired us to think about how ideas come to us for our writing! #hsfotb #thirdgrade

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IPads rolled out again, students explore what apps they have in third grade. #thirdgrade #1:1district #ipads

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Finding a "Just Right" book takes practice! Books are not one size fits all. #thirdgrade #justrightbook

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Playing a version of "Headbands" gets students thinking of these mottos while their partner describes what's on their card. #thirdgrade

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Ss visit Mackinac Parks to learn firsthand about early Michigan History. #thirdgrade #michigan #michiganhistory

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Student "paleontologists" uncover and classify fossils into one of three categories #thirdgrade #Science #fossils

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Third graders practice their Michigan concert. Ready to teach the audience about Michigan's history through song! #thirdgrade #michigan

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Third graders become the experts and teach second grade how to use Bloxels to create their own video games! #thirdgrade #bloxels #mentors

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Silent Disco promoting "Kind is Cool!" #silentdisco #thirdgrade #kindness

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Salmon in the classroom - we released today! #thirdgrade #salmon #salmonintheclassroom

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Ss explore polygons and angles with tangrams. #geometry #thirdgrade

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@Kelleher3rd @bloxelsbuilder So the students are building their own video game, creating characters, building backgrounds and animation. The game can actually be played!

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@Kelleher3rd @bloxelsbuilder Then we use our iPad and the Bloxels app to capture the board and it becomes one stage or room in a video game.

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@Kelleher3rd @bloxelsbuilder We have Bloxels classroom kits of "blocks" that the kids use to create the pixels in their own video game. Each block becomes a pixel.

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Ss research and take notes on extreme weather before creating a weather brochure using @Google slides. #thirdgrade #weather #GoogleSlides

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Ss use @bloxelsbuilder to create their own video game before writing a narrative story about it. #thirdgrade #bloxelsbuilder #create

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Ss design space capsules to engineer a safe landing for a raw egg launched from a catapult. #thirdgrade #stem #Engineering