As participating teachers in the LDAPs project, we were each responsible for training 3 other teachers. Ms. Buck and I decided to choose teachers within our own grade level. So, she is working with the third grade teachers, to integrate legos into their curriculum, and I am assisting the fifth grade.
Ms. Burnett's science classes are building a source of energy with the Lego blocks, as a culminating project for their Energy studies. The students are working in pairs, designing a model to represent either solar, wind, hydoelectric, or some other form of energy source.Here is an example of what their project direction sheet might look like.
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