Calling all 5th and 6th graders! We are looking for students interested in participating in our Lego Robotics Team and the ASU Science Olympiad! Please see Mrs. Thuneman if you are interested! We are also looking for parent volunteers to help with the Lego team!
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State testing is here! Check out this awesome break down of what Will Wonka's Chocolate Factory would cost today!! It goes along perfect with our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme!
Courtesy of Advanced Technology Services, a factory maintenance company. We are excited for a fun year of STEM! This year we have several fun projects planned. First we will be building, planting, and maintaining a classroom Tower Garden! Check out our Tower Garden Blog to see the progress! We will also be working with Little Bits Kits to learn about robotics and programing! Finally we will be preparing and participating in the 3rd annual Elementary Science Olympiad! It is going to be a wonderful year!
We look forward to seeing everyone in the library at 3:00! STEM Club members, please meet right after school. Don't forget to "dress to impress"! I am so proud of everyone!
Day 2 of our Solar Robot build was a success! Great job being problem solvers and following directions! We have one more meeting to complete our robots before our big presentation on May 4th! We can't wait to see what you accomplished! Please let Mrs. Stoops or Mrs. Thuneman know if you are having trouble or we can help! Please watch this video to help you decide which Solar Robot you want to create! We are so proud of Jamaica's STEM club members! Great job today with the successful build of your solar robot head and body! It was so exciting to watch these amazing students build a moving robot from scratch and see their faces when the gears started spinning in the sunlight! You should all be very proud of yourselves. We can't wait to see the finished products.
Homework: Please don't forget to cut out all of your parts and put them into the label bags provided in the kits. This way you will be ready to build on Monday. Also please decide which robot you will be constructing. Is it possible to use only a copper strip, zinc strip, two wires, and a potato to power a clock? Today the amazing ASU team helped us prove that YES you can! Students worked in small groups to assemble a circuit using the metal strips and potatoes to make a simple battery that created the electricity needed to operate a clock. Each potato worked as a device called a electrochemical cell. It converted the chemical energy stored in the metal strips into electrical energy. A cell works because of the chemical properties of the metals inside. The different properties cause tiny particle charged with electricity (called ions) to move between the two strips of metal. (find their "happy place"). This flow is an electric current. The potato contains the particles that allow the current to flow, but it stops the metals touching. Electric current also flows along the wires between the zinc and copper strips and the clock. This current makes the clock work! Our creative students didn't stop at just potatoes though! They experimented with lemons, salt water, and soda as well. Check out this great video on how batteries work. Can you make the connection to solar cells? Please create a post about what your team experimented with. Did it work? What conclusions did you make based on your results? Thank you again to the wonderful team at ASU for providing all of the materials and expertise today! Great job to everyone in STEM today, Science ROCKS!
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