Monday, June 8, 2015

Marshmallow Challenge


 The Marshmallow Challenge is a remarkably fun and instructive design exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation and creativity. The task is simple: in eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top.

See what some fourth graders can do:


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And here is a link to a Ted Talk about the Challenge: http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower?language=en

Thanks to Ms. Williams for the video and information regarding The Marshmallow Challenge!
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Thursday, June 4, 2015

FieldDay 2015

So . . . the weather was perfect . . .
and so were the kids . . .
the music was loud
and the games were fun . . .
We would like to play
like this again . . .
can we do it tomorrow . . 
Next year
in the sun?



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Thank you to Ms. Williams for the beautiful pictures!