Engineering: Late Winter, Week One

Week One: Lane, Ryder B, Arlo, Natalie, Sierra, Abigail, and Vita.

Engineering is off to a great start! In keep with our overarching theme of Deconstruction, we'll be focusing on demolishing structures this term, and the kids have really been enjoying things. On Monday, we started thinking critically about this stuff by doing a little bowling in the hallway, with the kids having the opportunity to set up the pins themselves and experiment with a variety of configurations. From there, we moved on to using a "wrecking ball" made out of an old broom handle, some rubber bands, and a block, and the spent much of the rest of the week with a catapult we used to knock down a stack of coffee cans. The children very much enjoyed using a measuring tape to see how far their missile had travelled, taking apart and rebuilding the catapult together, and seeing how their different ideas affected the machine's performance. Have a wonderful weekend!