Today for Halloween we did a STEM Team Challenge. Students were given a problem and had to come up with a solution...Mr. Jones is sick and cannot handout candy tonight, so students had to design a gadget to get the candy from his door to the sidewalk for trick-or-treaters.
Maker's lab materials included popsicle sticks, rubber bands, twist ties, one paper cup and 2 feet of tape to launch a starburst into the treat bucket. Groups had 30 minutes to build and test and then measured 4 test trials to find the average distance that their candy landed from the target. After the trials, they wrote a detailed reflection about what worked and what didn't and how they could improve next time. It was so much fun. Happy Halloween!
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