Family Fun Science Night on Earth Day

For our first Family Fun Science Night, we set up five stations to rotate through: Slow moving slime, circuits using playdough and LEDs, Marshmallow structures, newspaper architecture and Moon Landing Engineering Challenge. 

Many families came and enjoyed spending the evening together with science.

Makey Makey Science elective

Students used the Makey Makey to create controllers for games on the computer. Some students even built their own games using Scratch. They used conductive materials in partner groups. This is day 2:

Day 1 was exploration of how to create a circuit using the Makey Makey and conductive surfaces:

Bristol Bots and Homopolar motors

Students assembled Bristle Bots from kits purchased through a RCEF grant. They assembled the mini robots with a partner using a small motor, battery, and toothbrush head. Then we dipped them into primary color paint and let them run on a white piece of paper. We had a visiting high school student who is doing a Career Exploration Passage on mechanical and electrical engineering.

Students also attempted a simple homopolar motor. We got the templates from Babbledabbledo.com.