Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Civil Engineering
Yesterday our S.T.E.M. Club members completed a Civil Engineering activity. Each group had to use a single sheet of paper and a 12 inch piece of tape to design and build a free-standing structure. The structure had to stay upright for at least 30 seconds with no support. The picture below shows the finished products.
Friday, April 6, 2012
It's Been A While!
It has definitely been a while since we have updated the blog! We have been up to lots of fun and exciting things!
We finished Session 2 with the wonderful Egg Drop Experiment, and learning about aerodynamics with paper airplanes. Pictures will be coming soon. (Mrs. Owen's personal computer is having some issues at the moment, so as soon as we get that straightened out, the pictures will be posted.)
We are now in the final S.T.E.M. Club Session: Session 3! We have a few new folks joining us, and some very familiar faces with us again this time!
We have met three times, so far. The first meeting, we cleaned our mealworm/beetle habitats, and explored their life cycle some more. Our second meeting, we planted some herbs in our garden in back of the school. We are looking forward to watching these grow! Last week, we extended our paper plane activity by engineering our own paper airplane designs! We worked together in groups to see whose planes could go the furtherest. We found the way you throw the plane (or the force you apply to it) has a big affect on how far the plane will fly, too! (Not just the design!)
Check out this video we watched before we put our engineering minds to work. It's the new world record paper plane!
We finished Session 2 with the wonderful Egg Drop Experiment, and learning about aerodynamics with paper airplanes. Pictures will be coming soon. (Mrs. Owen's personal computer is having some issues at the moment, so as soon as we get that straightened out, the pictures will be posted.)
We are now in the final S.T.E.M. Club Session: Session 3! We have a few new folks joining us, and some very familiar faces with us again this time!
We have met three times, so far. The first meeting, we cleaned our mealworm/beetle habitats, and explored their life cycle some more. Our second meeting, we planted some herbs in our garden in back of the school. We are looking forward to watching these grow! Last week, we extended our paper plane activity by engineering our own paper airplane designs! We worked together in groups to see whose planes could go the furtherest. We found the way you throw the plane (or the force you apply to it) has a big affect on how far the plane will fly, too! (Not just the design!)
Check out this video we watched before we put our engineering minds to work. It's the new world record paper plane!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Do You Have What It Takes to Build a Roller Coaster?
Our Green S.T.E.M. Club members do! Check out these engineers at work!
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