All the 4th and 5th grade students and teachers at Coleman Elementary school got together to participate in the marshmallow spaghetti challenge. The students worked in teams to build the highest structure possible with a marshmallow on top.
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Lindsay Hess
10/10/2016 11:20:16 am
I love this "FAIL" First Attempt In Learning Poster. I want to make that in my classroom as well. Especially with these engineering challenges, students are learning not only to work together in groups, but also learning to rethink their plans and attempts. It's a great lesson to learn early on and apply in other academic areas like math, etc. Cool!
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Tom Kiehfuss
11/15/2016 08:42:27 pm
I have been using this challenge for the last five years as an opening week challenge. It gives such valuable information about student discourse/dynamics. I like how the lesson sets the stage and expectations for group work.
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Edward Malaret
11/15/2016 08:54:55 pm
I have been using this challenge for a number of years as well. What I like about this process is that I use it to introduce the idea of iterations and looking at a process more critically for improvement. I am always hoping that this will lead to other areas like writing but have not made that transition yet.
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Gina Tanner
11/15/2016 10:40:17 pm
We use this challenge every year. It is engaging, inexpensive, and fairly easy to run. One thing we learned is that providing masking tape is better than providing blue painters tape. Also, we allow students to use more glue sticks than the original challenge directions because some glue guns already have some glue in them and this was thought to be unfair by our students.
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11/16/2016 05:11:48 pm
I also like the FAIL poster. I can see myself using it in my classroom especially with certain students who get discouraged when they "fail" at something. I will apply this ASAP
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