On April 11, 2014, we returned to Ms. Jarvis’s colorful
classroom for another day of STEM fun!
This visit we focused on the “E” in STEM education and engineering. We gave the students
an engineering challenge to create an egg "rover," after watching the NASA video Seven Minutes of Terror about the Curiosity Rover's Mars landing.
The students were given a bag of
materials, a budget to purchase more materials, and a list of constraints for
this group project.
After brainstorming, designing, and creating the protection
for their eggs, we did the egg drop. Only two groups' eggs survived!
Next time we visit, the students will work to redesign their egg "rovers" for another round of egg drops.
