The students love having Taylor as their TA this year. Here Taylor assists with racing green engineering race cars on a ramp, testing speed, distance, and ability to navigate rough terrain.
Engineering
How Do Engineers Work Together?
Challenge: Construct a tower at least ten inches high that will support a stuffy using only index cards and one meter of masking tape. Use the engineering design process. (Ask-Imagine-Plan-Create-Improve)
SOME STRONG ENGINEERING TALK OVERHEARD FROM OUR ENGINEERS. . . . . . . . .
***Ivy and Jon: “You hold here while I hold here, and it will work.”
***Nevaeh and Alivia: “This is so amazing! You have great ideas! You are a great partner. We combined our ideas.”
***Noah and Jackson: “We can do this! Let’s put our ideas together!”
***Audrey and Molly: “Let’s try this now to see if it will work.”
***Joshua and Benjamin: “Yes! We did it. Nice work!”
***Micah and Nathaniel: “I was thinking the same thing. We are doing well with time.”
More Scribblebot Mania!
Engineer Gabriel Challenges You to . . . . More Bots!
Bots and more bots! Now that you have been thoroughly enjoying your scribblebot at home, are you ready for more engineering? Here are some more ideas to try, plus we’re sure you have many of your own ideas. If you try more engineering, share a picture with Miss Blessing for our blog!
Upcycled Toy Car Marker Bot
by Anne Carey at Left Brain Craft Brain
Use your scribblebot motor with an old hot wheels to try a new style of scribbling. Don’t forget that you need to make the motor unbalanced in order to get the scooting motion. You can also use a broccoli band to hold the wires on the battery if you don’t want to attach a bulky battery holder.
This website also has an idea for minion brush bots.
Bristlebots
There are lots of ways to make bristlebots! They vibrate around like homemade hex bugs. Just ask your parents to google “bristlebots” if you want to see other ideas for making these, but here’s one of my favorite engineering websites to try.
How to Make a Better Bristlebot on Instructables
And just to get your brain churning, look at all these other bot ideas engineers just like you have come up with!
Oh, 2nd and 3rd grade engineers, YOU HAVE JUST BEGUN!!!!!!!!!
STEM Delight
Huge thanks to my dad for creating and donating the marble run equipment for our explorations! It was like the Montshire in here!
Rewind . . . to Mr. Houle’s Engineering Visit!
Our school has phenomenal volunteers, and they enrich the education of all of our students in many ways. From donating to our science closet to picking up equipment in their vans to sharing expertise in classrooms, volunteers added a great deal to our engineering endeavors this year. Thank you!