This Is It!

Happy Summer Vacation! Thanks to all nineteen kiddos, and all their families for one of the best school years ever!

My Favorite Lesson This Year

We created bubble wands (see previous post-Engineering In Elementary), and tested them yesterday. We had so much fun designing them... the kids were so creative! It was even more fun to test them. Some had to remodel their orignal design and others worked beautifully! Anybody have a 3D printer? We could patten some of these designs!

Hayley and Summer had the best smaller bubble wand designs. Their wands blew spherical three foot bubbles.  Madison's and Paige's bubble wands were unique designs that made longer bubbles that were about five feet. 

After testing, the kids gathered data and found the maximum, minimum, mean, median, mode, and range (common core vocabulary for grade 4 & 5). We took it a step farther and talked about circumference, diameter, and radius.  We even found the estimated area of a bubble. This was a great end of the year project. I will miss this class because they have really shown that they can have a whole lot of fun while learning! Here is the pictures of our HUGE bubbles! 

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Engineering In Elementary

Engineering in Elementary

Here is a challenge that you all can begin this weekend since it's going to rain, rain, rain! Design your own bubble wand! You can start it at home by gathering supplies like pipe cleaners, wire coat hangers, string, things from your recycling bin, etc. 

We are going to do some bubble math, bubble science, and bubble contests! What will your wand win?

Here are some examples. But make it whatever YOU imagine! Engineering is most fun when you try to do something you think is impossible. I'll tell you more Monday!

 

Have fun and DFTBA!

Play, Play, Play!

If you must play on Math Playground, play the games below because they are aligned to the Common Core, which means that you have to know the skills involved in each game by the end of fourth grade!

Math Playground & The Common Core

Game On

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