This week, the students finished creating individual castles in Minecraft. The students who finished early were given the opportunity to make their castle more elaborate. A football stadium was added next to one castle. A beach was created behind another…
Inspiring Global Leaders Become the International Whaling Commission [Week 3]
This week, our global leaders immersed themselves in a simulation about international whaling rights. They took on roles representing different countries in the International Whaling Commission, negotiating on whether to end a global moratorium on commercial whaling. They also continued…
HNS Observers Learn About Animals [Week 3]
This week, the Hawaii Nature Study Observers learned about different kinds of animals! We started off the week by going to the Honolulu Zoo. The kids were very excited to see all the animals, especially the hippopotamus. On Tuesday, since…
HNS Explorers Make Paper Mache Animals [Week 3]
This week, the Explorers took a field trip to the Honolulu Zoo where they learned about the different animals. With their knowledge of native Hawaiian and invasive species, the students made paper mache replicas of the animals. They also did…
Robotics with Lego WeDo Start Open Projects [Week 3]
This week, the students started their first open projects. Open projects are different than their previous projects because they are not guided by step by step instructions. Instead, students are given an action for the core robot to perform. They…
Robotics with VEX Take on the “Ball Challenge” [Week 3]
The students learned how to program the VEX Cortex and VEX controller using the RobotC program and learned how to sync the cortex to the controller and to the control bots wirelessly. They also made speed bots and added bulldozer…
Driver’s Education [Week 3]
Robotics with Lego EV3 [Week 3]
Robotics with Lego EV3 Clears the Rubbish [Week 3]
This week our class continued working on clearing the board of all the assorted pieces of lego rubbish. This proved to be much more challenging than expected, and we saw many different iterations of each group’s design as they gradually…