This week, the students finished their large recyclable roller coasters. Team KABOOM, Team Inventors, and Team Engineers successfully completed the task—getting their marble to roll through a hill, loop, and turn and then land in their catch five times in…
STEM: Discovery [Week 5]
STEM: Discovery Gets Rolling [Week 4]
This week, we moved on to our biggest project! Students worked in teams of three or four to build roller coasters out of recycled materials. They began the process by testing parts of rollercoasters to see how they work and…
STEM: Discovery [Week 4]
STEM Discovery [Week 3]
STEM: Discovery Catapults into Week 3 [Week 3]
This week we learned to efficiently use materials to minimize our waste. To do this, we learned about a money system that incorporated our previous lessons on states of matter. Students were able to purchase materials as a group to…