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