I saw this post by Tricia Fuglestad on Twitter ! She is an elementary school art teacher, and tech integrator extraordinaire!!! I found lots of inspiration on her Twitter page and her Weebly! I was so inspired by her whirligigs, I had to do a lesson with my 4th graders! We also have a Whirligig Park in our state, and we watched this video to explain to the students what a Whirligig is! We just finished our Maker Faire, so they were intrigued by these moving contraptions! Wilson, NC Whriligig Park Tarheel Traveler Segment, WRAL By the end of today's lesson, we used our research skills, learned new science terms, reviewed polygons, and drew a plan for our own whirligig. I gave each team of two kids a card with a science term on it. They had to research the term and come up with an animal that fit their category: nocturnal, amphibian, reptile, a bird, a mammal, etc. Once they decided on an animal that fit their category, they had to draw the animal using at lea
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