Fishy Business in the Lab

This month the Lower School began their Ocean Unit.   This topic has been incorporated into their challenges in the Lab.

1st Grade created realistic ocean habitat pictures using Pixie, a computer graphics program.

2nd Grade watched a video on all the different ways ocean animals move and then were challenged to create a digital flipbook with Animation-ish of an ocean animal moving in the water.  Many of the students even included moving background in their colorful animations.

3rd Grade have been studying sea turtles so they were challenged to create turtle shells from Zometools. 

4th Grade watched a video on the Ocean Clean-Up Project of the Great Pacific garbage patch originally conceived eight years ago by a 16-year-old.  The project was implemented last year but recently encountered a engineering snag when a piece of the device detached.  The students took inspiration from this project to create their own design using Sketch-Up, a 3D modelling program.  Like the engineers on the Ocean Clean-Up Project, the students created an original design, evaluated it, and then improved it the second session.