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Week # 7: Engineering Design Challenge: Reach for the Sky! Build a Tower

This week's challenge focuses on the key design concepts used in skyscrapers. Explore some of the world's tallest skyscrapers and towers. Then, put your building skills to the test and see if you can build a tower using materials that you have available at home! Click HERE to view the full description for this week's challenge

Grade 2: Weather

In Second Grade, we focused on weather instruments. We tried to help solve a city's energy problem by studying where would be the best place to place wind turbines. We used the engineering design process to design and redesign anemometers that can be most effective at measuring wind speed. We also designed our own thermometers using basic materials. As a culminating activity, students were asked to design a house that could withstand hurricane winds from a blow dryer.

Grade 3: Space

In Third Grade, we focused on how space objects are classified, and often reclassified, as new discoveries are made with better technology. We learned about different galaxy classifications and star classifications. We also explored he history of the classification of planets, from the time when the sun was considered a planet, as well as the moon! We used a variety of materials, including toilet paper, to create a model showing the distance of the planets from the sun. We, then, created salt watercolor paintings of space based on images from the Hubble Space telescope. As a culminating activity, students completed an engineering design challenge from the NASA JPL where they were asked to design a spacecraft that can safely land two astronauts (ping pong balls), using a variety of materials to cushion the landing.

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