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Mr. Curry's Enriched
Project Based Learning Classroom
Our JUNE
Calendar | Special April
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Coming Events
School resumes August 30th |
We truly
are the Vinci Park Explorers
Our class isn't standing
still -- we are on the move, exploring in the classroom and beyond!
View a Class
Overview Slideshow-
 In
early October, our class went to NASA
Aerospace Encounter Using GPS at NASA Aerospace
Encounter, our students became members of a simulated space station crew
and a Mission Control crew. They also learned about aeronautics and
designed a plane on computer as well as learned about laws of physics while
playing fun games.
 Later
in October, we went sailing out onto Monterey Bay with O'Neill
Sea Odyssey. Raising the sail with a heave and a ho on our O'Neill
Sea Odyssey trip, students took an amazing voyage into the Monterey Bay
National Marine Sanctuary to learn about Marine ecology, biology and navigation.
In order to earn this trip, our class committed iteslf to doing an ecology
project.
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Creek Eco-Clean-up
 Our
class, along with the entire 5th grade from Vinci Park school, have taken
on the responsibility of helping to clean litter from our local waterway,
Upper Penitencia Creek. This Adopt-A-Creek project, which will include
additional trips in November,
March and June, is a way for our students to make a difference in their
community. It is also the service project that allowed us to go on
the O'Neill Sea Odyssey on October 14th. |
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View our Award winning
Adopt-A-Creek
Eco-Action project
 This
project, started by Mr. Curry in the 2000-2001 school year, was the winner
of the Walden West Science Camp Eco-Challenge for 2002-03. On April 21st,
we tested the water quality of Penitencia Creek as part of a pilot Windows
on Our Watershed environmental unit that Walden West brought to our
class. See our
students
at work
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 This
year, Vinci Park held its first ever Science-O-Rama.
The Science-O-Rama here was at the April 29th Open House. Our students
used the provided display board to either showcase a Science experiment
they did or simply show what they learned about in one of their grade level
Science content areas. |
Looking
Back at Trips This Year
Sept. 16th: Eco-Project
Hike to Upper Penitencia Creek to do litter clean-up project (2-3 chaperones).
October 3rd: NASA
Aerospace Encounter at Moffett Field.
October 14th: O'Neill
Sea Odyssey. We sailed onboard a catamaran on Monterey Bay as we learned
marine ecology, marine biology and navigation skills. (4-5 chaperones)
October 20th: Independence
High School Planetarium program (Walk). 2 chaperones needed.
October 30th: Dia
de los Muertos workshop at the Los Lupenos Studio to learn about
the Mexican cultural tradition of Day of the Dead.
Friday, November 14th:
Our second Eco-Project
Hike to Upper Penitencia Creek to do litter clean-up project (2-3 chaperones).
January
26th Trip
to San Jose Center for Performing Arts for Asian New Year performance
by Chinese Performing Artists of America.
February
2nd: Jason Project XV Trip to NASA Ames
 Trip
to HP Pavillion
aka The Shark Tank
Wed. March 10th
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Our
students became members of a wagon train of the 1840's headed west
to California on April 30th.