"STEM-tastic Day"

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  We enjoyed a great day of STEM learning here in third grade on our day before the Thanksgiving break.  Last year we received a Iowa Governor's STEM grant to buy kits from a program called Engineering is Elementary.  Third grade purchased the Engineering Adventures Kit:  Bubble Bonanza.  The kit challenges students to explore properties of bubbles and bubble wand designs.  They then engineer their best bubble wand using the engineering design process.  It was great fun to see students exploring today as they used their science and engineering skills to help solve problems.  We will finish the second part of this challenge sometime in December.  Check out some pictures from today's activities below.  It was definitely a STEM-tastic day!