Today students completed the Marshmallow Challenge! The winning tower in P4 was 24 inches tall! The winning tower in P8 was 30 inches tall! Great work, kids!! While this was originally an activity designed for project managers and executives, it has been adapted many times over due to its broad appeal. This activity gave students the opportunity to interact with engineering and design standards:
3-5-ETS1-2 Engineering Design: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.Performance Expectation 3-5-ETS1-3 Engineering Design: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved. It also gave them practice with their teamwork skills such as positive communication, individual responsibility and accountability, constructive feedback, problem solving, organization and knowledge of roles. FMI check out: marshmallowchallenge.com/Instructions_files/TED2010_Tom_Wujec_Marshmallow_Challenge_Web_Version.pdf www.tomwujec.com/design-projects/marshmallow-challenge/
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
April 2020
|