Virginia SOL’s 2.11, 3.11
Students from Mrs. Facer’s 4th grade class were assigned a project to create a Famous American out of materials found within the home.
Can you identify these Famous Americans?
Famous Americans Project
What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Perhaps the most surprising part of the ed-tech video is that all of the innovative programmers interviewed—including Bill Gates and the engineers of Dropbox—say they got into programming when they were children and by taking introductory classes in computer science. (5:44 mins)
Spaghetti Team Towers
VCEC Conference – February 28th and March 1st, 2013
STEM Session – How Engineering Fits Into ALL Subject Areas
Challenge: Create the tallest freestanding structure that will hold a marshmallow. Your structure must remain standing for at least 3 seconds to be measured. You do not have to use all of the time given. You can have your structure be measured more than once if you make changes.
Design a Coin
VCEC Conference – February 28th and March 1st, 2013
STEM Session – How Engineering Fits Into ALL Subject Areas
Design Challenge: Examine coins front and back. Pick a Famous American and design a new coin around that person.
Those Darn Squirrels!
VCEC Conference – February 28th and March 1st, 2013
STEM Session – Pulling It Together
Design Challenge: Work with your group to design a machine that will get the squirrels to the bird feeders. 
Design Engineers: Sylvia and Alana