Hello Steve!

[Jennifer Barnett]

I feel honored to be your first member. I was thinking of asking my other science colleagues at school to join. Is that OK? (6th-8th grades). My classes are just beginning Force & Motion and students will be choosing a demonstration to perform live or on video and relate it to one of Newton's Three Laws of Motion. This was very successful last year and I look forward to their ideas this year. Next week is our Spring Break week, so some will be out of town, while others may work on it. I expect some fairly basic demos because of that. Afterwards, student groups will design a Puff Mobile...a vehicle from straws, wheels, pins and one sheet of 8 x 11 paper they power by blowing on it (hence the name)! They LOVE this! and it's great for utilizing the Design Cycle!
Best wishes!
Jennifer

[Stephen Rhodes]

Hi Jennifer,

Get as many people to join as possible. I was excited to hear about your puff mobile because I have been thinking of doing something similar for the 6th graders but haven't found the resources. I was wondering where you get the wheels.
I had the speaker come in and it was really good. I find the one world difficult to do but having the speaker come in and addressing the kids in a one world context made answering questions related to one world worked well.

Would you be willing to upload your puff mobile activity or is it on your wiki page.

I am going to get my colleagues to join and then I will be sending out invitations out to different schools so hopefully, we can get more input. I am eager to hear how different schools and teachers implement the MYP program.

Steve