Saturday, October 31, 2015

Lower School STEAM Project in the Maker Space


Students in Lauren Vanin's fifth grade class had Halloween fun in the maker space this week with a STEAM project making Pumpkin Catapults.  "This STEAM design challenge was created to give give students an opportunity to plan, design, test, and improve catapults using specific consumable materials." reports Vanin. Her students had this to say, "I know know what a 'maker mindset' is…….”
“We knew we had to design a structure that would shoot the pumpkin the furthest, so it took lots of experimenting to find the correct spoon height.” “Most of the time we spent improving our original design…..we want back to the drawing board a lot!” “It was fun measuring the distance of our shots”
“Next time I’m using the materials differently!” “The group whose catapult shot the furthest spent less time building and more time planning.  I’m doing that next time”





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