Our Newest Collaboratory Adventures
The Collaboratory was moving and shaking this week! Take a look at the cool things that we did:
Our first graders continued gathering background information about light by exploring how light interacts with different materials, using the terms absorb, reflect, and transmit. The students are trying to learn as much as they can about light and optical engineering so that they can design and build their own lighting systems later in this unit.
Our second graders did some research this week to see what special projects environmental engineers are currently working on all around the world. Then, the students became environmental engineers and started making blueprints for other projects that they believe would help solve some other environmental issues. When they presented their ideas to their peers, we pretended they were on Shark Tank and they had to answer questions and further explain their reasoning behind certain parts of their blueprints. We even reached out to a local environmental engineering firm with our ideas!
Our third graders continued with their Designing Submersibles unit by exploring the concepts of volume, mass, and density! We even used my own lunchbox to model the concept of density like Nicholas did with Thia's cooler in the story we are reading called "Despina Makes a Splash". The students also engaged in some test experiments to see how different items reacted to being placed in water!
Our fourth graders used what the learned about the best materials for making sails to actually build and test out their sail designs. These sail designs will be used in their big windmill project at the end of this unit!
We are looking forward to another exciting week in the TES Collaboratory!
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