💛💙In my Eagles Era💙💛 Bettie F Williams ES 🦅 #VBCPSBacktoSchool today with a great group of Eagles! Ready for the 24-25 school year!

"It's not about instructional moves, we need an instructional MOVEMENT." Spending the day with Colin Seale, J.D. learning how to slay the game. Flipping the script on critical thinking in the classroom. VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs

Using the engineering design process to create a device to slow the descent of a bobby pin. Test your idea, observe, reflect, make adjustments, improve your device. Being inventors and innovators Bettie F Williams ES! VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs

Scientists Bettie F Williams ES use the 4 question strategy to explore how water acts when dropped onto a penny. Next up: Design your own experiment to see if changing the materials changes how the water acts! VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs Nancye Flinn

At the Oceana Air Show with Bettie F Williams ES! First stop...WAVY TV 10 photo op! VBSchools

The collaboration between Naval Air Station Oceana and VBSchools provides an incredible opportunity for our 5th graders Bettie F Williams ES to have an awesome day of wonder, learning, and fun! We 💙💛 seeing the Blue Angels, playing tic-tac-toe with U.S. Navy Divers, and going in a USMC Recruiting tank!

Exploring Virginia Topography with 4th Graders by studying maps and creating models of land features throughout the regions of our state. VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs

Investigating the effect invisible pollutants have on plants. Studying the relationships in Virginia's Watershed with 4th Graders Bettie F Williams ES. (Mapping is way more fun with highlighters & black lights. I'm sure that's how Chesapeake Bay Foundation scientists study best also, right?) VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs

Honored to represent VBSchools at the 2024 Virginia Association of Science Teachers Professional Development Institute. Excited to focus on Global Curiosity, Science, and Inspiration. Title I VBCPS #vastpdi Starting off with the Sound of History! Colonial Williamsburg 🥁

First up...sensemaking in the science classroom! Exploring the phenomena of sound with lots of hands-on activities, vocabulary building, lit connections, and accountable talk with FOSS Science at #vastpdi VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs Title I VBCPS

So many awesome teaching strategies using scientific phenomena and dynamic model-making with Eric Rhoades at #VASTPDI

Designing experiments to test the dissolution rate Bettie F Williams ES. After a baseline trial, students used the 4 question strategy to change a variable to see what new effects occur in their own solutions. VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs Title I VBCPS Nancye Flinn

4th graders Bettie F Williams ES create tiny ocean models. Loving this Mystery Science lesson to get students thinking about salinity! Our favorite part included building ocean floor models and analyzing how salinity changes at different depths. VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs Title I VBCPS

Fancy fieldtrip this Saturday! 🎨🖼 Thank you to the Chrysler Museum for hosting 1st graders and inspiring student voice through art. Grateful for this VBSchools partnership where students and families can experience the museum together. VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs Title I VBCPS

Thankful for a nice autumn afternoon to cheer on our Bettie F Williams ES staff and students playing in the Turkey Bowl! Loved seeing the Spirit Squad and watching even our littlest students have fun. It was a SOARing school-wide success!

After a critical thinking thinkLaw lesson analyzing the classic song, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, Bettie F Williams ES students use STEM materials to create Reindeer games that would be fun for all to play VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs Title I VBCPS

Experimenting with refraction and reflection today with Bettie F Williams ES 5th grade scientists by using what we learned in last week's CER about matter and visible light. VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs Title I VBCPS

Help one of my students win a much needed bike! Click to vote for him in the #GreatBikeGiveaway because Every child Deserves A Bike! greatbikegiveaway.com/AsherMcDowell

Took a "peep" into the past today with Bettie F Williams ES 4th graders as they recreated scenes from the Jamestown settlement. Title I VBCPS VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs peepsbrand

"Shaking things up" with 5th graders Bettie F Williams ES to model and study the earth processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition. Analyzing data and making discoveries with Mystery Science is an awesome way to deepen our understanding. Title I VBCPS VBCPS Office of Gifted Programs