Kattre's Korner
Learning together. Growing together.
I'm not sure if your kiddos opened up to you about their excitement from Friday, so if not, let me share some awesome news! We are a couple weeks into our Solids and Liquids unit for science. We've been discussing mostly solids so far, with a focus on their properties and the different materials. Along with those concepts, we've been talking about engineers building bridges and towers, and how they need to have strong, heavy wide bases. On Thursday, I gave each set of kids a bag of materials with different properties, and they had to build a tower 45 cm tall, but with the idea in mind that it could withstand the force of wind. So when we began to build towers, we quickly realized that 30 minutes just wasn't going to be long enough. We decided to leave them out overnight and came back to them in the morning. When I saw the wheels begin to turn Friday morning, I couldn't ask them to put things away, so we worked really really hard and didn't stop until everyone was happy with their tower. After some discussion on positive things about each tower, possible predictions. and reflections on what to change for next time (from seeing other towers), we put them to the test. I set a box fan next to the tower, about 3 feet away. Then I put the fan on low, then medium, then high. If the tower still stood (they all did), then I moved the fan closer and closer and closer, and eventually pointed the fan directly down on the tower. To my amazement, every tower stood strong and sturdy. I'm so proud of their hard work and determination throughout this project. Here are a few pictures of the beginning stages of production on Thursday. Here are the final results of their hard work! I'd call this a success!! The last part of the day Friday we had an outdoor scavenger hunt. The kids took their iPads and a list of 9 different solid materials to take pictures of outside . They had to find two of every material and I was seriously impressed with how well they did! Check back soon for a video of the towers being tested!
Have a great week, everyone!! ~ Mrs. K
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Mrs. KattreI'm a 7th year teacher, with a family of three. Join me on this journey as we learn together and grow together. Archives
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