Greetings parents- 8th Graders have been busy constructing their new learning blog. If your child has science on Days 1,3 and 5 you should have received an email from them inviting you to check out their new blog. If your child has science on even days, you'll be getting this email on Monday. Their blog is a place to document their learning, inform others, and communicate their findings to a larger audience. We will use their blogs for different projects throughout the year and it will stay with them for their entire career at TAISM. If you have questions regarding their blog you can ask Mr. Mongardi or myself.
The purpose of the first blog entry was to give a "status report" for their Team X project, which I wrote about in a previous post. It has been exciting to watch how excited the students get when their lander design "succeeds" and how determined they are to make it even better. Giving real engineering constraints such as a budget and deadlines makes this project more authentic. Ask your child how their project is progressing and ask them to explain what they've learned from their design testing.
Here are some photos of the design tests from this week.
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