Centennial kindergarten students are marble run engineers! They began their adventure back in October at the Harvest Moon pumpkin patch. All of the students loved exploring the activities they had! They pushed, pulled, slid, and jumped their way through each area. The students' play helped them gain background knowledge for being upcoming science engineers.
During the following months back at school, the students investigated forces and explained what happens when we push, pull, or drop objects. Their investigations led them to discover how to change an object's speed and how to change direction of an object. Their final task was to design, build, observe, and analyze a marble run track!
After completing the marble run engineers unit, kindergarten students were shown videos of themselves taken at the pumpkin patch. They were excited to see some of the activities they had done and were now able to explain what was happening using their new engineer vocabulary such as gravity, push, pull, speed, design, etc.!