Kindergartener engineers have been learning about structure and function and then they build a safe house for the three little pigs! We test it out in front of our "Big Bad Fan"! Students get a lot of experience working and communicating with a partner or small group on this task. They also have to think critically and creatively to solve the problem of how to build a strong house with the materials they have!
Testing the houses
Building the Houses
First grade has been learning about how lights and sound work through many hands on activities! Below we see them using string telephones for another example of how vibrations create sound!
First Grade exploring with flashlights
3rd grade has been learning how to program computers in our computer science unit. They have been learning about loops and conditionals in an "offline" coding game where they have to give directions to the robotic dog in the board game to get her home. They get a lot of practice with working with a group, completing their job task, and thinking critically.
4th grade has been exploring energy with hand crank generators, solar panels, light/energy sticks, playing old fashioned marbles, and many more exploratory activities. There is a lot of looking closely and observing what we see and then recording questions or wonderings we have in order to make sense of all things energy!
5th grade classes have completed their first unit of robotics where they work with a group to build and modify a robot in order to complete a robotics challenge. In the final competition (in the pictures below), they work with another robot group to get the most points possible by moving blocks to their specific color zones and driving on the ramp by the end of the 90 second match!
3D printed trophies to our winning teams!
