Supermoon eclipse 2015!

Here are a few photos I took last night during the supermoon lunar eclipse. I know these don't compare to seeing it in person, or from a professional photographer's photos, but I so enjoyed this event!

Apple Picking!

Fall is my favorite season here in New England. This morning, we went apple picking! Here are a few pictures from our trip, to a very busy farm. Temperatures this morning were close to freezing, but by the time we finished picking they had warmed up enough that we were all pretty toasty.

STEM Challenge: Towers!

Today was the first day of our new STEM challenge class at a local makerspace! We had so much fun building towers out of plastic cups.

 This two-part challenge was to build the tallest tower using plastic cups (with a limit on the number of cups). The second part constrained the base to a 6 inch by 6 inch area (with large craft sticks, but you could use masking tape). A simple, yet effective task for demonstrating quite a few engineering design principles. They really got creative in the second part of the challenge!

You can download the graphic organizer sheet over at this guest post I did over at Minds in Bloom:

It turns out I wasn't the only one doing STEM challenges today! Cheryl at Primary Graffiti posted this on Instagram today too:

 

You'll want to follow her over at IG @primarygraffiti ! It looks like they had a great challenge in their class, and is making me anxious to go apple picking.