New Albany Collaboratory

We’ve had a lot of engineering developments in the Collaboratory in the last week and a half!
* Kindergartners finished their Pushes and Pulls unit and experimented with a marble run, discussing how gravity and friction played a role in the speed of the marble.
* First Graders learned about pollination and worked on the ASK phase of the Engineering Design Process by testing different materials that will later be used in their hand pollinators.
* Second Graders also worked on the ASK phase by combining materials to see how they changed. They will use this information to IMAGINE and PLAN out their play dough process.

Kindergartners explored the effects of friction using ramps with different surfaces and comparing the speed of tennis balls and marbles.

Second graders took a quiz to see which of five engineering careers best suit their interests. Check out our future Computer Scientists, Biomedical Engineers, Agricultural Engineers, Acoustical Engineers, and Aerospace Engineers! 👩‍🔬 🌎 👩‍🚀 🎤 💻

Kindergarteners have been exploring pushes, pulls, force and motion. Last week, students created safe slides with pool noodles to show how gravity pulls the marble down the slide and how to make the marble change directions

More coding Olympic challenges in 2nd grade!

Each grade level has now completed their first coding Olympic challenge.
K/T1: Short Course Speedskating
1: Ice Hockey
2: Long Course Speedskating

At the midway point, Team Antarctica (purple) is in first place, Team Asia (yellow) is in second place, and Team South America (red) is in the third place. The remaining continents are not far behind! Second challenges have begun and we should be completed by midweek next week. Great job coders!

Students are doing an amazing job with their Olympic coding challenges. 🏅 🏒 ⛸️ 🌎

Second graders practicing with Dash and Kindergartners starting their first Olympic challenge - speed skating! ⛸️ 🥇

Second graders started to learn about stop motion animation this week. They worked hard to make animations with group members names and are looking forward to making Halloween animations next week! A few practice animations are in the comments!

Kindergartners imagined, planned, created and improved to build Forky just like Bonnie did in Toy Story!

Celebrating International Dot Day with ”dot” pixel art and using augmented reality to make our dots come to life! We showed our courage to try new things and used creativity in our designs.