Sacajawea’s second grade students ended the year with STEM activities. In Ms. Burton’s class they received the challenge of designing a robot that could make a marker write unassisted on paper. They worked in teams using electric toothbrushes as their batteries. Some were definitely successful!
In Mrs. Friddle’s class they studied wind energy during the week. On Friday, they did an activity where the goal was to design the fastest spinning windmill blades. After they designed them, they tested them using a fan. The student with the fastest windmill didn’t want to test his at first because it looked different from everyone else. Soon all the other students were trying his design!
In Mrs. Prall's classroom students walked into a room full of recycled materials. They were then grouped into teams and provided a challenge of making a water slide that had at least one twist or turn, could hold water, had a ladder and could safely carry a marble from the top to the bottom. The students worked together using innovative ideas to build their water slides, test the slides and make changes.
Ms. Vrooman’s class studied space the last week of school. They got to culminate this research by watching a space mission. What a great way for these students to end their second grade year!
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