For the final magnet activity, students used magnets with washers and paperclips to create a masterpiece by pushing and pulling the materials through paint.

This week the focus of pushes and pulls is on magnets.  Yesterday, students observed which items in the engineering lab were pulled toward their fishing pole magnets.  Today they designed a maze and maneuvered a magnet through it.

Continuing with simple machines, kindergartners programmed BeeBots to push over Keva planks and pull Lego vehicles.  They also observed the wheel and axle simple machine on the BeeBots.

In their simple machine investigation today, kindergartners made cars with wheels and axles.  They put them on  ramps to discover how the wheels made work easier.

This week, kindergartners have been investigating how simple machines make work with pushes and pulls easier.  Today they used pulleys to lift different objects.

Today the kindergarten students made observations about how different ramp materials affected the pull of gravity on the marbles going down the ramps.

All week, kindergartners are investigating pushes and pulls related to marbles.  Today, they problem solved how to arrange Keva planks to get marbles to hit a target.