If I Had a Hammer...

Mike, a parent volunteer, is giving Kindergarten kids a chance to find out what they would hammer about...

or drill about...

Notice the goggles!

Mike has pulled in other parent volunteers!
There is room for more!

Stop by Friday to see K wood workers in action.

Fifth Grade Green Club Working on New Recycling Can Covers in Green Studio

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Change Makers Blossom at the Brooklyn New School

No Batteries Required...

In order to get ready to make their marble mazes, first graders play with gravity to get marbles to travel through pipe insulation tubes.

What can you do with a wheel and an axle?

Make a top!

First graders used pencils, marker tops, old markers, wooden skewers, and crayons as axles...

And cardboard circles, take-out drink lids, used DVDs, and other round objects as wheels.

More re-purposing....

Looks like DVDs made the best tops.  

It works!  Students counted in a fair scientific way:  Using One Mississippi to time their counting.  (Some kids used..1 Mississippi Sip.  What is the origin of that?)

Paper captures path of top if the axle is a writing tool.

After finishing a cardboard wheel and pencil top, this first grader is selecting new pieces to try out.

Thanks Johanna for helping students problem solve and for the photos.

First Graders Re-Purpose With A Purpose...

Make a Balance Toy...

Fourth Graders Learn North Eastern Woodlands Technology

Nancye, Joe, Johanna, and Charles lead kids in tanning hides,  making bows and arrows, moccasins, cradle boards during project time...