Sixth grade students have been studying and engineering paper rockets lately. They came up with dozens of ideas of what they thought was going to be the perfect rocket. Fun was had all through the learning process, although many failures were hit along the way. Just a couple designs and journaling/data recording can be seen below.
ELP students have have been learning many new things as they explore challenge problems each week. As the students work through the challenges they are often learning math curriculum that is 2 or more years above their current grade. This allows them a constant new challenge in the world of math, as well as keeping their current math benchmarks sharp.
Some problems remain too difficult for students, so teamwork, or partner work is utilized to find the correct answers.
