Our first, second, and third graders started working with Power Circuit sets to find out more about how circuits work. Students learned about the different tiles in the kit and what their jobs were. Students completed the Night Light Challenge and the Beeping Alarm Challenge.
Third Graders exploring the Power Circuits
The third graders learned about each power tile and how they function. They also learned about how electricity flows through a circuit. We completed some challenges to learn about the flow of electricity through the tiles and how the yellow control tiles can adjust the flow through turning dials or pressing buttons. The students completed labs that included building: cube car, shadow car, flashlight, lantern, light show, demo board, and several others. Students completed a deeper thinking question sheet along with some creativity tasks after each lab.
First and Second Graders exploring the Power Circuits
The first and second graders learned about each power tile and how they function. They also learned about how electricity flows through a circuit. We completed some challenges to learn about the flow of electricity through the tiles and how the yellow control tiles can adjust the flow through turning dials or pressing buttons. The students completed labs that included building: cube car, shadow car, flashlight, lantern, light show, demo board, and several others.
Students completed a deeper thinking question sheet along with some creativity tasks after each lab.
Our fourth and fifth grade students were hard at work exploring the different pieces in the Vex Go kits! They learned about standoffs, pins, beams, and more! The students started out creating some blueprints for the different parts as well as a flag pole challenge using constraints of only specific pieces.
Fourth and Fifth Graders exploring the Vex Go kits and accomplishing the Flag Pole Challenge!
Super Car...How Far? Lab
Create a Super Car using the building schematics. Use the turn knob to wind the car and collect data on how far the car travels based on the number of turns you turned the knob.
Vex Go...Robot Coding
Fourth and fifth graders started a new VexGo lab this week. We discussed jobs in our world that would be considered dull, dirty, or dangerous. We also discussed how some robots can do some of these jobs for a variety of reasons. They built a motorized robot using pretty detailed and complex directions. Students learned how to connect their robot to an app on the iPad and use coding to control the movements the robot made. Students had the robots rolling forward, backward, doing circles, and other specific turns.
Students learned how to use bthe different 'Drive Modes' on the VexGo app to navigate their robots through a slalom course with obstacles.
Our first and second graders listened to 3 fairy tale stories. Each fairy tale had a specific challenge to try to solve. The students used the STEM challenge kits to construct solutions for each fairy tale's challenge.
The Three Little Pigs Challenge-Builld a house that will hold all 3 pigs without blowing down.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Challenge-Build a bridge that is strong enough for all three goats to cross at once-and high enough to stay above the troll.
Goldilocks & the Three Bears Challenge-Build a new chair that can hold anyone in the bear family without wobbling or falling over.