When science teachers ask you to save your "garbage," don't you wonder what they're going to do? After all, why do they need all of those 2-liter bottles, jars, paper and other random products?
To create, of course...
See the pictures below as the race was on in one science classroom: with the time and materials given (paper and 1 meter of tape only), students were to create the tallest tower they could. And, there was no trash talk allowed!
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| Prepping the classroom is messy work |
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| The competition begins |
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| Survival of the fittest |
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| Building the tower |
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| Another tower in process |
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| And, of course, clean up |
And then, we have the 7th grade parachutes, and more random materials...
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| Getting ready to drop |
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| Measuring the speed |
The culmination of all these crazy materials and experiments is getting kids to think critically. Because we do such a great job of this, all 14 of our St. Louis Science Fair participants earned a ribbon, and one even earned a $200 prize from Monsanto. Great job!
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