Monday, May 19, 2014

Building bridges...

Odyssey of the mind encourages children to think outside of the box. When we were learning about bridges, I gave the children 2 separate challenges.


Challenge 1:
They had to build a tower or bridge that could support as many erasers as possible using only the materials in this bag:


We tried our best!









Challenge 2

We had to build a tower or structure that could support as many erasers as possible using only 5 rectangular pieces of paper:










Math games and science spinners

Games are so much fun! We don't even realize that we are learning!!








Here we are learning about movement and motion using "zoomers":