We have just wrapped up the PLTW session with 4th grade and Dr. Kimmey and Mrs. Embry's 5th grade classes.
4th grade designed and built eggs that would prevent an egg from cracking when it hit a wall and they worked on computer programming in Scratch. (They still have their accounts so they can continue to work on any of their own coding projects throughout the year.)
5th graders worked on designing and building robots that would help humans with dangerous work. We pretended to clean up nuclear waste after we learned about the devastating earthquake and tsunami that occurred in 2011 and all the damage it had done, including destroying the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. We simulated a nuclear waste clean up with a class competition of robots working together to score team points.
