Meeting Times
We will be meeting on Days 1 and 2 from 8:10 - 9:05.
Projects for 2017
KidTown - Students are working on creating their own town. In the process, we are learning about what it takes to run a small business in a town by visiting Family Pharmacy and Carvel. We will be speaking with Mayor Neff to find out what it takes to be the Mayor of a town. We are learning about Zoning and Planning for how a town is laid out. We will be learning how to "scale" objects so that we can create the map of our town. We will make a spreadsheet showing the costs for running our businesses. We will be constructing parts of our town using the 3D printer.
Musical Pictures - Students created pictures using graphite pencils. They then hooked them up to Makey Makey boards and created music! See our musical pictures below.
We may do one of the following projects.
Marvelous Machines from the Engineering is Elementary Series developed by the Museum of Science in Boston.
Catch the Wind from the Engineering is Elementary Series developed by the Museum of Science in Boston.
Partner Project - We also may be partnering with an Asbury Park School on a special collaborative project. This is still in the works so stay tuned.
SimCEO - Students worked on creating a business that is either Service or Product based. They are wrote business plans and thought about what the mission and vision for the business would be. We used a simulated stock market environment so that students could buy and sell stock on each others companies trying to maximize profits.They created presentations about their business in order to influence students to purchase their product. This information was then used to increase their stock value.