Today we had Scientists in the School for 2 physics workshops to kick off our last Science units for the year: grade 5 forces and grade 4 ancient machines! The grade 5's learned about different types of forces and completed a structure challenge to use newspapers and tape to hold as much weight as possible. Congrats to the winning group - their structure held over 22 books!
The grade 4's had a great workshop that helped wrap up our history unit in Social Studies and launch into our Pulleys & Gears unit as we explored "ancient" simple machines and discussed how the Ancient Egyptians could have possibly built the pyramids using simple physics!
The grade 4's had a great workshop that helped wrap up our history unit in Social Studies and launch into our Pulleys & Gears unit as we explored "ancient" simple machines and discussed how the Ancient Egyptians could have possibly built the pyramids using simple physics!