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Welcome to the first couple of days of 8th grade science and engineering. The goal of our first two class periods is to create a team and establish our team work norms. Day 1: Paper Towers Students began be creating our classroom good teammate norms. Click the link here to see what they came up with! To test these qualities out, we engaged in our first engineering challenge! Our task was to create a structure capable of holding the most mass off of a table 1 inch using nothing except 3 pieces of printer paper and a "Noffy" length of masking tape. Students were given 20 minutes to build and test their structures and then another 20 minutes to rebuild/redesign to see how much they could grow. The team that achieved the greatest mass held 270 pounds of books. The team that achieved the greatest improvement more than doubled the amount of mass their structure could hold. Here are a few of the teams solving this problem! Day 2: Breakout EDU Teamwork Today we practiced using our norms by participating in our first Breakout EDU game on Teamwork. Breakout EDU is like an escape room--students must solve puzzles and clues to break into a box that has many, many locks in it. Check it out! Today the students had 8 locks to solve in 30 minutes or less. They were unsure of it when they began, but by the end of the day they all wanted to do another one at least once a week. We will be playing Breakout at least once per month for the rest of the school year! Watch the video below to see what they did!
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