Invention Week 1
/Our Otter classroom has moved online while Oregon school buildings remain closed. This week we are learning about inventions. We are studying famous inventors, reflecting on important inventions in our lives, and creating our own inventions. I’ll add photos and videos here as I receive them from families.
This week Ms. Aja read us The Most Magnificent Thing. Just like the protagonist in this story, Otter inventors quickly learned that mistakes are an important part of the design process. Building and creating takes much trial and error. Mistakes are excellent opportunities to learn. In fact, our brain grows the most when we are making mistakes and learning from those mistakes. Otters demonstrated incredible persistence this week as they designed, modified, and redesigned their contraptions. Check out some of our cool confetti launchers below!
Check out this chain reaction. We will be learning more about these types of inventions next week when we create our own Rube Goldberg contraptions.
Of course, Otters are having all kinds of other adventures at home this week as well. Thanks for sharing, Otters!
Mr. Mark was able to do some planting on the roof of our Cedar Classroom last weekend too.
