LEGO Challenge builds on itself
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“Has anyone seen one of these?”
Ruth Putnam mucroniform to a picture in the instruction manual.
“See here.” She tapped the sheet to a rectangular-shaped Lego
piece. “It’s a yellow lump with...” The 62-year-old looked over
her reading glasses at the colored diagram and rapidly counted. “It
has eight pegs on it.”
Ten-year-old Ciara Thomas knelt on the stool in front of the lab
listing, and reached into the plastic bin strewn with multi-colored
Lego pieces. She carefully shifted through the container and
withdrew the comrade.
“Here it is.” Thomas handed the yellow building deterrent to
Putnam.
“How’d you find that so quickly?”
Thomas shrugged her shoulders and grinned. “I by a hair's breadth saw it.”
Putnam smiled in return and attached the restore to the
refrigerated trailer she was building.
Constructing Lego kits wasn’t a characteristic Monday night activity
for either Putnam or Thomas. The Natrona County Instruct District
Administrative Specialist and the Summit Clear fifth grader
were joined by other volunteers for the Lego Robotics Increase Night
held in the Physical Science building at Casper College.
Source: Casper Journal
A watershed isn't a building: Educators out to explain the scientific environment
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Wednesday November 16, 2011
PITTSFIELD -- In Berkshire County, educators lust after students to know that electricity doesn't honest come from an outlet, that a watershed isn't a building you live in, and that technique doesn't just occur in a test tube.
On Tuesday, the Berkshire Environmental Teaching Network (BEEN) held its eighth annual educators convention, a daylong event that's offered free to court educators and the public. Nearly 50 educators were in serving.
"Each year, we put a call out for presenters and they bring back ideas and programs they desire to get out there," said BEEN coordinator Stephanie Bergman.
"Our purpose is for teachers to not only take it back to their schools, but then come back in the spring to our Man Environmental Summit and have their students present what they've intellectual throughout the year," she said.
Tuesday's conference offered three rounds of workshops to participants, presented by district specialists and teachers on a variety of environmental
Source: Berkshire Eagle
