Students Work to I.C.E. Tasks
Second-graders at Herbert Mills STEM Elementary School were civil engineers for a day last Friday at the I.C.E. Lab, designing "tennis ball towers" using only 20 drinking straws, 40 inches of masking tape, scissors, a tape measure and one tennis ball.
Teacher Teresa Cotner said first- through fourth-graders at the school visit her I.C.E Lab classroom for one hour each week, where they "imagine, create and engineer."
The "engineers" on Aug. 28 were from Celeste Cripe's second-grade class.
"We talked a little about what it means to be an engineer last week when we read Rosie Revere Engineer," Cotner said. "Engineers are people who like to know how and why things work."
She told the children that engineers ask themselves three questions when they encounter a problem: What is the problem? Who has the problem? Why is the problem important to solve?
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Posted: Wednesday, September 2, 2015