The Engineering Design Process with Third Graders: Designing Bridges

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https://spark.adobe.com/video/eIsX1EWFF9MJl

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Kindergarteners Are Learning About Penguins

Here they are sorting vocabulary words into three categories: what they eat, how they move, and parts of their body.

2nd Grade Geometry with Bubbles

The second graders have been learning about 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. We made 3-D figures out of straws and pipe cleaners and then dipped them in bubbles to see what shapes the bubbles made.

Will it float?

These sixth graders studied density to learn why things float. They used this knowledge with an engineering task where they had to build a boat out of aluminum foil and accurately predict how many pennies it would hold. Here they are playing the "Will it float?" game with the entire school at school sing.

Shadow Puppets

The first graders are working on a combined science and literacy unit. They are practicing telling stories with shadow puppets. They are also going to be working with improving their puppets by adding cutouts and colors.

Helping K Math

These sixth graders are working with some kindergarteners on writing equations showing combinations equal to ten. They are getting ready to play a game where one person hides some chips behind their back and the others guess how many they hid.

Crankies!

No, I don't mean cranky kids. This is an art form which can be used to tell a story. Both the first and third grade groups made crankies. The first graders each wrote their own constellation myth and their own cranky to illustrate it. The third graders worked collaboratively to write one story (historical fiction) together. Here are some pictures of a few first graders performing their story and a link to a video of the entire third grade story.

Sokanon and Tapenum's Adventure (click here to see the third grade story)