5th Grade Gifted

The best part of our day today consisted of our Iggy Peck Architect STEM Activity. We read the book Iggy Peck Architect, viewed a power point of some of the worlds tallest buildlings and watched a short video of the process architects go through when designing and building a building. After some discussion the students were placed in groups, planned their design and were given 15 minutes to build the tallest free standing structure. After our first round the students met with their partner and discussed what went well and what did not go well. They reevaluated their design and made a new plan. Once their new plan was mad,e they were given another 10 minutes to build the tallest free standing structure. This round proved to be much more successful. After lunch, the students worked on a funny Thanksgiving Math Glyph! :)