Tinkering 101

In partnership with the Montshire Museum, Peacham Elementary is participating in their 40 Schools Project. I feel fortunate to have been able to get our school involved as it has always been important to me that children learn the design engineering process and what goes on behind the scenes of how technology works. For this project students created "Scribble Bots". Here is a brief photo editorial on the process:

Trying out different designs

Testing the bots

Tweaking the bots

Cool bots!

A visit from Howard Coffin

Being not only the school librarian, but also the writing and social studies teacher affords me great opportunities to collaborate with myself on curriculum regularly, like this one! Author Howard Coffin visited grade 3-6 students to talk about Vermont's role in the Civil War. He spoke for about 45 minutes to a captive audience and was impressed with their background knowledge and questions. Did you know it was Vermont who helped win the Battle of Gettysburg and turn the war in favor of the union? Go Vermont and thanks to Mr. Coffin for his visit!