It’s Fall, and it’s finally cold enough to feel like Fall. Smart & Final and other grocers have an exceptional variety of apples. And, although eating apples and sampling is fun, I try to build out lessons that incorporate fun but also incorporate planning and spatial awareness. We decided to leave some apples out to try out our favorites, eating seasonally is great. Not only is is better for the environment but fruit just tastes better (and sweeter).
We had two guidelines for the assignment: 1. build something 2. work in a group and use constructive communication to get work done. Some groups struggled as some of the students wanted to build individually, some groups thrived because they were overly communicative. It was great to see the kids face challenges and address them, and solve and move on quickly. See the pictures below.
