Thank you to Aunty Teresa for sharing her career with us. We learned about reading food labels as well as all of the important work a registered dietician can do. Did you know they can work in the hospital, have their own company, be a chef, or a trainer. We also made a healthy trail mix snack which proved to be a big hit! We love our STEM career talks!
Conditions can challenge animals, and they may have difficulty meeting their basic needs for survival. Students design and build bird feeders.
Ask: How can we create a bird feeder that is accessible to Maui species of birds using 7 of the following materials; paper plates, spoons, string, bottles, boxes, skewers, chopsticks,craft sticks? Criteria:
Constraints:
Imagine: Students discussed the different adaptations of various birds. Watch here. We also read the article "Cracked" to learn about bird adaptations. Plan: We explored different DIY bird feeders to help us plan our drafts. We asked ourselves a series of questions including; Which foods on our list would be easiest for local birds to eat?, What can you use to hold the food where birds can reach it?, Do all bird feeders need to be in containers, or can food be stuck to something?, What other animals might take the food?, Can you design a bird feeder that lets birds get the food but keeps it safe from other kinds of animals? Here are some of our plans. Create: We took time to create our bird feeders out of our 7 materials. We all worked well together- taking turns and all helping in the design process. Test: We set up our bird-feeders and we've been checking them daily. Improve: Some of us needed to make our bird-feeder lighter so it would hang in a tree. Also some of us needed to have a larger whole for birds to get tot he food.
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AuthorsMrs. Shim and her STRETCH students Archives
May 2015
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