Don't forget to email me if you are interested in a spring conference. I am available most mornings before school and all day on April 8. Don't forget to check out all the latest pictures on the website too: http://traceybean.weebly.com/photos.html Last week was our third engineer challenge. This week's blog will be a chance to show you some of the great creative ideas the kids came up with to solve their challenged. Third graders were working on building a better parachute. We used Lego people as our test subjects. Their ultimate goal was to have the slowest descent with two tried from nine feet up. In the video you'll see we also had some great parent helpers to perform our tests and videotape for us too! Fourth grade performed part one of a two-part challenge. The first portion required them to build a moon rover. Their astronaut (raw egg!) had to fit snugly inside their rover and then points were rewarded for every inch their rover rolled. Next time we'll use the rovers to perform step two: build a lander to hold the rover and the astronauts. Fifth graders challenges continue to look at how we explore distant planets remotely. This time they were building a device that could take a core sample of a distant planet. For the sake of our tests, the core samples were food items, but the kids were beginning to learn some of the science elements behind how to create force and store energy in a simple machine. They came up with some great ideas!
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