Those two weeks just flew by and it was back to Tully for me today. They finally moved on from Mars and began learning about the Earth today. Mrs. Podsiedlik taught them what the Earth is composed of. She told them the Earth is made up of an inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. Then she explained to the students that they will be creating their own Earths and must include those four components. She listed the four layers and what colors to use for each. After handing out the different colored play dough to each student, I watched them create their balls of Earth. Mrs. P. told me after they are done with their creations to cut a slice of it using a wire to show them the inside layers. Some of them were hard to cut and I was afraid of squishing it or messing it up. After putting the play dough Earths aside, Mrs. Podsiedlik went on to talk about tectonic plates and the different types of boundaries. She discussed divergent, convergent and transform boundaries. While she was doing that I went down to the teachers' lounge to heat up marshmallows in the microwave. I handed out graham crackers, chocolate and some heated marshmallows to each student. They then were able to create their own edible tectonic plate boundaries using those ingredients. They looked and smelled delicious I wish I could have made some of my own! I thought that was a really clever idea since they were able to learn and create, then enjoy eating it after. Today was a pretty fun day except it made me hungry LOL.
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