5th Grade Egg Drop #1

Can you design a package that keep an egg from breaking when it is dropped from a  second floor balcony?
Students used one piece of newspaper, cotton balls, socks, tape, etc. to create their device.   Fantastic Mr. Egg, Reign of the Egg, Up, Up and Away, and Toilet Paper Power enjoyed their ride to the bottom of the stairs!

Everyone wants to try Egg Drop #2 next week! 

Survivor eggs!

Bird Research Sites

Hi kids,
Here are some good sites to learn about your bird:
Cornell All About Birds
EEK! Critter Corner
BioKIDS

Sample Prezi Embedded in My Blog

Curiosity on Prezi

Independent Project Resources

Some students learn best when they pursue topics of their own choosing in their preferred learning style. Here are a few links resources to fan the flames for a project.
Discover Engineering

OLogy from American Museum of Natural History

DOGOnews

Iowa AEA Online Resources Login: 31fairfield  Password:  gpaea

5th Grade Balloon Car

5th grade students designed and built a car powered by a balloon to go the greatest possible distance. All students persevered to build cars out of meat trays, paint sticks, cds, thread spools, and styrofoam cups, etc. One car actually went 51 feet! Another car won the creative award for a unique cat design! Students worked hard to figure out how to apply Newton's 3rd law to their cars. Check out pictures below!

4th Grade Lego Robotics

4^th graders built their first Lego Robot in January. Jon Funkhouser works with the Pence kids to teach them how to program their robot. Washington and Libertyville 4^th graders have student leaders who already know how to program the robot.  They are learning to move the robot and use sensors. Later they will create dancing robots.

3rd Graders Fly Hoop Gliders and Paper Airplanes

3^rd grade students completed Type 1 investigations to learn concepts of flight. They constructed a hoop glider with a straw and paper and a folded a paper airplane called the Nakamura Lock.

The hoop glider proved to be challenging and glided only 7 to 10 feet with one exception: one glider flew 23 feet! The student said her glider went so far because of the design and the throw.

On the other hand, all students successfully flew their Nakamura Lock paper airplanes! We headed outside to enjoy a mild winter day and fly our planes. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera!

Here is a link to the website we used to fold our planes. They really soared when we went outside!

How to fold the Nakamura Lock