Santa Shop is Coming to Town

Preview Video: https://youtu.be/QLA1Qd7hgZ4

Unit 3 - Humanities Cornerstone - Critical Thinker: Early Explorers

For their most recent design challenge, scholars chose an early settlement in Texas and designed an artifact for a museum that could represent the influence of the early explorers/colonization in that location. They researched their area to learn which explorers or settlers had the greatest impact on that area as well as the main reason people explored or colonized the area (economic opportunity, competition, or the desire for expansion).

Options:

- Galveston - Cabeza de Vaca

- Fort St. Louis - La Salle

- San Antonio, Nacogdoches, El Paso - Spanish Missions and Presidios

- Nacogdoches - Spanish Rachos and Vaqueros

- San Felipe - The Austin Colony

(More photos to come soon!)

Hour of Code Week

Our fourth grade scholars welcomed 8th grade STEMbassadors into their classrooms today for an Hour of Code lesson. The STEMbassadors presented a Binary Images lesson.

Binary Images - Though many people think of binary as strictly zeros and ones, our previous courses taught students that information can be represented in a variety of binary options. This lesson takes that concept one step further as it illustrates how a computer can store even more complex information (such as images and colors) in binary, as well.