The Trial of A. Wolf

After we read the book "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka, you were presented with a lot of different evidence. Some of the evidence suggested that A. Wolf might have been guilty of killing the two little pigs, while other evidence points to his innocence in the case. As a member of the jury, your job was to look at the whole picture, and use the evidence presented to decide whether he had committed the crime or not. 

Sometimes when we are looking at a scene, we will find evidence that points us in different directions than we expect. It might be hard to narrow down a suspect, and the clues can sometimes raise more questions than answers. That is why we must always look at all of the evidence to make the best possible conclusion that we can. Hopefully you enjoyed today's lesson as much as I did. 

In your blog post for today, you will need to discuss whether you think A. Wolf is guilty or innocence, and use evidence from the trial to justify your decision. Remember: you should try to consider more than one piece of evidence to decide! 

The Usual Suspect

In today's science activity, you were challenged to remember features of a classmate after they had stepped out of the room. It was someone that you had sat beside for the whole day, yet it was incredibly difficult to remember the specific details of what she was wearing, how her hair was styled, etc. 

So, why did we do this activity?

It shows us how important making specific observations are. If we are trying to look at a crime scene and figure out who is responsible for the crime, we will need to make very detailed observations in order to make a reasonable inference about who might have done it. It will be important to pay attention to all the details, even the small ones. 

In your blog post for today, you need to explain the activity that we did. Then, you need to explain what you learned about science today (hint: it has to do with observations!)

Welcome to my Blog!!

Why are we blogging?

Welcome to your new science blogs! We will be using our blogs to discuss what we are learning in science during our Evidence and Investigation unit. The nice thing about the blogs is that you are able to write about the different topics or concepts we are learning about, share your thinking, ask questions, and really think through new ideas and knowledge. I love reading through your blog posts, and the great thing about blogs is that anyone in the world can read them too! So you need to make sure that you are writing in a way that is easy for other people to understand. 

For your first blog post,you have three different topics you will need to write about.  You must discuss how you will be a responsible digital citizen on your blog. You will do this by outlining the rules you will always make sure to follow when posting. This is important because our blogs will be public for anyone to see, and we need to be safe.

The second thing you will need to post are your goals for the blog. What do you hope that blogging will help you learn about? What do you hope to take away from this type of writing?

Third, you will need to predict what types of things you will need to learn about in this unit to be able to solve a crime. Be as specific as possible, because this question will give me a hint about what you know about our unit before we even get started!