Balloon Car Racers for the WIN!!

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2nd Grade students worked in collaborative groups to design & create cars powered by balloons for our Force & Motion unit. We connected our project to literature by reading If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen. This was a LONG process, but all classes have FINALLY tested their creations!!  We had many successful designs!  A special congratulations goes out to the top cars that went the farthest distance in their class. 

TOP Distance = 15 feet 5 inches!!  Woohoo!!!

What is Elephant’s Toothpaste?

Our 5th graders are learning about matter, along with physical & chemical changes.  We took our CHEMICAL reactions to the next level with ELEPHANT’S  TOOTHPASTE!!  It has nothing to do with elephants OR toothpaste, but scientists relate the reaction’s foaminess and size to that of and ELEPHANT!! We understand that this reaction was a chemical change because of the increase in temperature AND the fact that a gas was released. 

Thank you FREY Foundation and our AWESOME Frey community for these supplies! 

Learning to Write Code for Robots!!

We Love GRANTS!!   A huge Thank YOU goes out to our wonderful Frey Foundation and the Georgia Mineral Society!  The STEM Lab received two STEM in Action Coding & Mineral Collection kits.

Our 3rd graders are learning how powerful landslides expose  minerals that were previously hidden under Earth’s surface.  Their challenge is to program Botley Robot to pick up specific minerals along the path of the landslide for further testing. The kids are learning to WRITE the code that will be sent to Botley.  Tough Stuff!!