This project uses the story “Stuck” by Oliver Jeffers to engage students in the different stages of the technological problem solving process in the Kindergarten Program document. Students will have opportunities to create structures that boy in the story can use to retrieve items that get stuck in a tree.
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SIMPLE MACHINES RULE!
Categories: Lab/Student Activity
The students and teacher will go on a 'movement' hunt in their neighbourhood, and around their class and school during which they will record all the different things that move. Discussion will... read more
Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Finding the electron
Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Teacher Demonstration
Prior to Thomson’s work it was thought that the atoms of each element were unique, invisible particles, or that atoms were made of subatomic particles that had significant mass compared to the atom... read more
Student Activity: Evolution of Paper Birds
Categories: Lab/Student Activity
This demonstration (adapted from http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/origami.html where there is additional information) models the process of evolution by introducing random mutations into... read more