OLPH

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	STEM REPORT: BIoEyes 4.9.2012	The BioEYES program is producing exciting results....there are hundreds of fish growing in the fifth grade class! Our young scientists are busy examining their fish under high-powered microscopes. They are illustrating and writing about what they are experiencing. Mrs. Gregorini has incorporated the BioEYES program into her lesson plan as the children have been tasked with...	1946	1 year 8 weeks ago	ehenderson
	8th Grade Virtual Science Fair Projects	"What Floats your Boat?" Grade 8 presents a Virtual Science Fair - a collection of Science Fair Projects for 2012. Students worked individually or with a partner to research, experiment, and draw conclusions following the scientific method. They created Power Points to present their work to ...	1812	1 year 13 weeks ago	ehenderson
	Upcoming STEM Education Happenings!		1625	1 year 17 weeks ago	shenderson
	USA Science and Engineering Festival - OLPH to Host Nifty Fifty Speaker	OLPH is excited to be chosen to have Nifty Fifty speaker, Dr. Marnie Halpren, join us on April 20, 2012.	1494	1 year 20 weeks ago	ehenderson
	Feasibility of Windpower at OLPH School	On Friday, December 9, Dr. Lynn Sparling, Physics Professor at UMBC, spoke to OLPH seventh and eighth graders at the closing of the POWER program, which began in January. The POWER Energy Grant, sponsored by Constellation Energy, WeatherBug, and the Albright Foundation enabled student interns from UMBC to instruct grades 4-8 concerning the feasibility of windpower as a renewable energy...	1177	1 year 27 weeks ago	ehenderson
	The results are in!	POWER - The Results are In! Following our school energy audit, grade 8 completed calculations of electricity usage at OLPH. We compared this data with daily windspeed observations from our WeatherBug system. Our figures show that an average sized wind turbine would save about one quarter of our electric bill each month.	158	2 years 5 weeks ago	ehenderson
	Kindergarten uses Virtual Tech Labs	Kindergarten has been learning from and enjoying the virtual labs dealing with plants and the human body from Discovery Education. They definitely enhance our discussions and text information!	157	2 years 6 weeks ago	ehenderson
	POWER continues at OLPH!	Grade 8 Pre-Algebra took a virtual field trip facilitated by Discovery Education, to the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Financial Literacy Week. We went live to the floor of the NYSE to learn the basics of stock ownership and to take part in a dialogue on financial responsibility. Following this, we checked our own stocks which we have been following this year in our Stock Market Game...	156	2 years 9 weeks ago	ehenderson