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My first Scimatics blog post! How exciting.

In Scimatics we recently finished a unit on plate tectonics. It was really interesting to learn about our earth, and how we are actually standing on huge slabs of rock that move around under our feet. In this unit, we worked on three Curricular Competencies:

  • Questioning and Predicting
  • Applying and Innovating
  • Evaluating

We had 5 Milestones to complete in this project. One of them is this blog post.

The most important Milestone was the Tectonics Book. It had to include at least 10 Key Concepts from the textbook pages we read, and we shared it with grade 4s and 5s from Cove Cliff Elementary School.

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