Understanding Cars and the Bridges they use
Source/Author: Betty Gootson, Head of The Experiential School of Tampa Bay
February 25, 2016
The people who help take care of our cars are very important to all of us and a trip to Bob Lee’s Tire provided the Alpha students from The Experiential School of Tampa Bay with the perfect segue from their “People in the Neighborhood” study to the Transportation project they will engage in after Spring Break. The children were thrilled with their Bob Lee T-shirts and the “safety goggles” they received. The goggles, of course, kept them safe as they examined a car engine and learned to operate the air machine and the car lift!
Many, many thanks to the Lees for providing this awesome experience for our youngest Experiential School students!
Back at school, the Junior Kindergartners were busily engaged in learning more about waterways and the structures built to cross some of them. Because St. Petersburg, Florida, is surrounded by water, the students are very familiar with bridges, and this week they thought about them from an engineering perspective; how are they built and what does it take to support them?
Using cardboard, tubes, and a variety of connecting materials, the students experimented collaboratively to construct a roomful of bridges. Then they enjoyed trying them out using toy vehicles.
Read more from this week in preschool on Betty's blog.
Many, many thanks to the Lees for providing this awesome experience for our youngest Experiential School students!
Back at school, the Junior Kindergartners were busily engaged in learning more about waterways and the structures built to cross some of them. Because St. Petersburg, Florida, is surrounded by water, the students are very familiar with bridges, and this week they thought about them from an engineering perspective; how are they built and what does it take to support them?
Using cardboard, tubes, and a variety of connecting materials, the students experimented collaboratively to construct a roomful of bridges. Then they enjoyed trying them out using toy vehicles.
Read more from this week in preschool on Betty's blog.
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