^ Check out this TEAMWORK!!
Today is the type of day I LOVE as a teacher. The students required very little direction, and the classroom hummed with enthusiasm and productivity all day! All teams had their blueprints and budgets finalized by this morning, and by the end of the day, some teams had even finished their bridges.
The class will have one more week to complete their bridges, and we will test them the last class before Spring Break. For the teams that are going into next week with their bridges completed, I'll have an alternative engineering challenge for them to tackle.
I'm looking for a couple former GATE students (now in junior high or high school) who would be willing to share some Advice for Middle School with our current 6th graders. The advice could be shared casually through email, via a phone/video interview, or they could even come join our class for a question/answer session on a Monday before the end of the year. Let me know if you have someone in mind!
Thank you so much to everyone that has donated to the Lowell GATE Classroom Fund this year! Your donations have purchased 2 drone kits, tons of art and engineering supplies, and 5 huge Lego sets! I have my eye on some Rubik's cubes, a full-sized microscope, and math/strategy challenges. Please click on the link below to donate to my Boise Foundation Account.
(I'll start posting as soon as I have confirmed which students from each school are on the No Photo List. Thanks for your patience!)