Family STEM Night

Don't miss out -- our Family STEM Night is next week!  Don't miss the opportunity to experience what your child has learned in our latest engineering unit - designing membranes.

Field Day

We are enjoying a great day today at Field Day. Thanks to all of the Cannon Staff who worked so hard to organize our events today. We are so glad that the weather forecast of rain was wrong!

Testing membrane materials

Today we are testing materials we will use to build our model membrane. Students brainstormed together to try and solve the problem of building a model membrane that will let water through at a slow rate.

Is an Eggshell a Membrane?

We are continuing to explore membranes, today using eggs. We soaked a peeled egg and an unpeeled egg in colored water over the weekend. The peeled egg let in a lot of the color and the unpeeled egg let in very little color. We concluded that an eggshell is a membrane because it let some of the food coloring in.

What does a raisin look like up close?

Have you ever looked at a raisin under a microscope? Mrs. Hall's and Mrs. Step's class used a digital microscope to look at a raisin skin up close. Some of us have decided that we may never eat another raisin! We soaked some raisins and will look at them again tomorrow. Will it look different? Wait and see.

Exploring Membranes

Today we began the next step in our engineering unit -- exploring different membranes. Today's investigation uses raisins. Did you know raisins have tiny holes in their skin. We will know more tomorrow!

Biomimicry

Today we are exploring the idea of "biomimicry" -- technology that mimics biology. We used the iPad app, Instacollage, to compare pictures and write about their function.