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Elwood Students Play with Food to Learn

Elwood students at James H. Boyd Intermediate School learned recently that playing with their food can sometimes be a good thing.

Third-grade students in Liz Held’s and Beth Noon’s classes took part in Cranberry Day, in which students spent the morning rotating through eight interactive stations centered on a cranberry theme. 

Activities included measuring the distance a cranberry will bounce, estimating the number of cranberries in a container, creating cranberry art, tasting different types of cranberries and simulating a cranberry bog. At each station, students were asked to complete a task that reinforced concepts that they are learning in math, science and reading.

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“Students used scientific inquiry skills such as observation, predicting outcomes and organizing data as well as mathematical skills like estimating and measuring to complete these hands-on tasks,” Held said. “The activities reinforced the skills and concepts taught in the classroom and meet the rigorous standards of the Common Core.”


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