September 21

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5th grade students are using our MacBook cart for the first time! It's quite a process getting everyone logged in and into our Google Classroom this first time but we did have some time to design contraptions in Tinker Ball (http://engineering-games.net/logic-games/76/tinker-ball). Students had a list of nine challenges in Google Slides to practice designing with constraints. Not all 5th graders have been to STEM this rotation yet but, if your child has, he or she can login to their Google Classroom (http://classroom.google.com) at home using their Deer Creek Google account and can show you the constraints they used.




6th grade students spent the week researching, designing, testing, and improving containers  for our egg drop challenge. We dropped them from as high as I could reach from the counter today and recorded our results. We had planned to go to the softball fields behind the school for a higher drop from the bleachers, but there was a tournament happening. We're going to try again on Monday to see if our results are the same. Check out the slideshow at the bottom of this post to see a picture and description of each group's device. 










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