In keeping with Kingston's STEM goals, students worked to design the tallest building they could usenig only candy corn and toothpicks. As you can see by the pictures, students had to overome a variety of handicaps, inluding candy corn that easily broke.
As a part of the Earth, Moon, Sun unit wrap up, students created mind-maips to show what they had learned and show relationships between the Earth, Moon, and Sun.
Math is the language of science and we've combined both in this lesson designed to help students understand the comparative sizes of the planets. The teams worked wtih fractions and measurement to divide the clay into the appropriate sized pieces for each planet. After so much work, students were amazed at the comparative size of the sun to the rest of the planets and of the gas planets to the terrestrial planets.
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