This is actually a peek at the week before this one, but I finally had a chance to put together the photos and videos from our engineering challenges to give you a glimpse at what we were up to the week before. Thanks to those of you parents who are willing and able to come and help us! For those of you who weren't able to help but think this looks like too much fun to mix next time, we will be doing challenge number two in December. Stay tuned for a Sign-up Genius in November. Check out all the photos on the photos page of the website. Below you will find the three videos from the three math classes... Third graders were learning about how these challenges work and learning about the engineering design process this time - that idea that you design, build, test, and rebuild. And it did take many rebuilds for them to create their pom-pom launchers in order to get the furthest distance possible! They did a GREAT job working together and persevering to find a solution to their challenge. Fourth graders were the rocket scientists for their first challenge. They had to work as a team to turn a straw into a rocket using a balloon as the engine. Their goal was also to go the furthest distance possible. This was a challenge, and we had some interesting failures but sometimes you can learn as much from failure as you can from success. No one gave up though (or lost their sense of humor!) Fifth graders worked to create an airbag landing system for their rovers (really an egg!) for this challenge. A drop of 9 feet poses quite the challenge - especially when we decided to add to the excitement by trying to drop their creations on the cement outside too. They were amazingly creative in their building!
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Emily Rohde
10/28/2016 02:47:08 pm
Looks like a lot of fun!
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