On March 9, we conducted a Maker Day with Animas Public School students in grades K-5. The morning was spent with grade K-2 students. We began with a new marshmallow construction challenge. This one would involve small groups building towers with mini-marshmallows and toothpicks. Before beginning, we talked about the design process and how real-world Read more about Marshmallow design challenge[…]
These are all unretouched digital photos taken by grade K-2 students at Animas Public Schools. They were given these photo challenges and a camera and turned loose!
On December 7, 30 grade 3-5 students at Animas Schools participated in a game jam! In this activity, students learned about the elements of game design and then went on to design and produce their own games. Students worked in teams to create a variety of unique games and then took turns presenting their games and Read more about Game jam![…]
On December 8, 2016, 30 grade K-2 students at the Animas Schools made books. They started with pre-folded booklets made with these instructions. They then wrote their books. Some students chose to use mainly pictures, while others included words. After their books were done, covers were attached, and students decorated those as well.
On December 8, 2016, 30 grade K-2 students at the Animas Schools made puppets and then performed puppet shows as a story telling activity. The puppets were made by pasting images on to paper plates and cutting them out. The images were either taken from printouts or created from scratch. Wooden sticks were then attached Read more about Puppets[…]
On December 8, 2016, 30 grade K-2 students at the Animas Schools participated in a marshmallow challenge. Eight teams took part, and seven of them had a standing tower at the end!
On Sat., October 22, 2016, we had a marshmallow challenge at the Portal Library. The challenge is to make a self-supported tower that is as tall as possible with the following rules: You can use the following supplied materials: 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The spaghetti, Read more about Towers with marshmallows[…]
On September 10, we hosted a game jam where kids were invited to design and create a game using these simple materials: two dice, four marbles, a piece of string, four paper cups, a bunch of cork “game pieces” of varying sizes, colored paper cards, round colored stickers, and a piece of posterboard. In addition, kids could Read more about Games![…]
Submitted by: karen I made these cut-out postcards to share with friends. They can hold them up in front of something that answers the question and then take a picture and send back to me.