Welcome back! I hope everyone had a great winter break! I wanted to ease everyone back into school routines today, so we didn’t dive right into new content. Instead, we started with our usual weekend check-in, but went a longer on account of all the time off. It was great to hear about all the different activities students were up to over the vacation.

Once the weekend check-in was done, we spent some much-needed time reviewing just what we covered prior to break. Students have a habit of forgetting some things after being gone for two weeks. With the help of our warm-up and student volunteers, we summarized the few weeks leading up to break.

This left us with just enough time to introduce the end of unit project and assessment for 6.2: Save the Penguins. Students will be working in groups to build, design, and test a structure that will protect penguins from a heat source. I’ll have more details on the project over the next couple of days. Before we can get started, though, we need to learn about the penguins and what’s happening to their habitat. To do that, students need a basic understanding of climate change. We’ll continue this discussion tomorrow.