The Demo-2 rocket did not launch today due to poor weather in Florida today but tomorrow we will launch paper Demo-2 rockets rain or shine.

We joined Mystery Doug for a live event discussing questions about space and featuring Jessica Meir, an astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station.  (She also graduated from the same school Mrs. Riggs and I attended - UC San Diego.) So cool!

So the competition continues.  Tomorrow students will show their new and improved bridge designs.  So far, the strongest holds 850 coins.  Wow!

Today, we started a Mystery Science bridge building lesson (distance learning style).  We watched the video during our daily Google Meet, discussed designs in the chat, created prototypes and started building bridges out of paper.  Students are inserting pictures of their bridges into a Google Slides presentation and retooling/retesting designs.  So far, Mia was able to build a bridge, made with only two pieces of paper, that can hold over 700 pennies!  The competition continues next week.  My little engineering scholars are amazing!

We are learning about the effects of rain, wind and temperature on rocks.

On Friday we used balloons to learn about static electricity.  Check out the videos below.

Scholars simulated three types of Earthquakes faults using books and sugar cubes.

We did a hands-on investigation today in science.  Scholars created mini "riverbeds" with soil and pebbles to study how flowing water affects rocks differently than soil alone.  More videos are available in our Twitter feed to the right.