Welcome to the first Saturday School! Scroll down to find your fun. You will see some fun for other people, but be sure to start with the thing you find most fun!!
Flight School – Paper Airplane Style
You might have made paper airplanes before, but not like this!
Things you need:
- Paper (obviously!!)
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Hard work
- Using science
Step 1. Fold your paper airplane. Try 2 of these 3 ways:
- Read the instructions
- Use these pictures from MIT
- Watch the origami video
While you build: Explore videos on our Flight page
Step 2. Test & Record data!
You can make your own table or print this one.
You are the scientist! Think about what variables you want to look at. Do you want to use different paper
Step 3. Use your data to make the best final design.
Share your data (and a picture of your plane if possible). Show off your STEAM success!
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Share your answer as a paragraph or picture here.
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Dec 7 – “A date that will live in infamy”
“Infamy” means famous for a bad reason. In 1941, U.S. president said that quote because Japan attacked Hawaii. Many people died that Sunday, and then the U.S. joined World War II.
You can see the actual video of President Roosevelt here. (This is a primary source because it is the actual information from the time.)
This CBS News story explains the Pearl Harbor attack and President Roosevelt’s speech.
Vocab you will hear:
- hastily – very fast
- transition – change from one thing to another thing
- advisors – people that give advice
- processing information – learning things
- casualties – deaths
- dictate – spoke to someone
- deliberately – on purpose
- paralyzed – cannot move legs (or arms)
Question: Do you think it was good this speech was six and a half minutes? Why or why not?
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This video from Crash Course covers World War II. We start it right before John Green describes the Pearl Harbor attack.
Your turn to study the history! Everyday someone tells you what to write. You choose today! You could write about:
- What led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
- What events happened on December 7, 1941?
- What happened after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
We found some great sources to help you gather facts:
- The Naval History and Heritage site has details about many aspects of the attack: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1941/pearl-harbor.html
- The Park Service at Pearl Harbor has information on the people, places and events: https://www.nps.gov/valr/learn/historyculture/index.htm
- The U.S. Navy wrote many articles about the attack. The page was at http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm, but now is saved at: https://web.archive.org/web/20100818203925/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm
- Need something easier to read? National Geographic Kids has an article with more facts: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/pearl-harbor/
Share your pre-writing here. (If you want feedback, create an account and we can email you feedback quickly!)
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Share an outline or sketch of your ideas here.
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Share your first draft here.
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Share your first draft here.
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If you get time to finish your draft, you can always save it here.
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Share your final draft here.
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Some research of ours – Try it out!
Have some math energy? Try out these problems we are researching.
Email us if you have any questions, edMe@myedme.com.