Off To An Amazing Start

We've only had three days of school so far, but I can already tell that this will be a great class! We started out with some basic team building and cooperative activities so that we could get to know one another. 

Our first activity was called "Save Fred." The students learned the scientific method by doing an activity in which they had to get a gummy life saver, on to a gummy worm, which was on top of a cup (which was also Fred's boat). So that sounds simple, but the students could only use a four paper clips. No hands! They had to develop a hypothesis and a procedure. It was a lot of fun to see them working together as they problem solved and got to know one another. 

Below is a slideshow from our Save Fred experiment and the puzzles we put together on the first day!