Get ready for CMT time ...

Last March I had a little competition in which you posted your CMT Practice Test with triumph (on the fridge, on your bulletin board, etc.) to show us all how proud you were of your accomplishment. Well, I got some pretty great photos ... but this one by far takes the cake:

BEST CMT PHOTO
Grace, period 8

Science Quote of the Day

‎"Washington [Roebling] was very nervous about it when his dad died, he was like, holy crap type of thing." -- B (per 5) when asked to supply one important fact he learned from watching the Brooklyn Bridge video.

Timely student input ...

Thanks to EM8 for this comic!

Penguin Wars and Stranger Things

A few years ago we did the same project in science that you are doing now, where students had to invent a board game that taught about simple machines. I am always impressed by the projects I get! Here is one with some pretty involved maps and rules about acquiring territory, in which the opposing players drive little Lego ATV's:



In this next one, called "My Little Boa", there's a simple objective (a Candyland-like path), but the player in possession of the board has to wear a feather boa and a tiara; there is also a song that goes with it. The loser has to wear a plastic bucket on her head.

I loved this one, a trivia game based upon Cheaper by the Dozen, or something like that.

Here is the board all set up for play:

Conclusion: I love my job.

By far the best game, an actually marketable game, was this one called "Penguin Wars," a battle strategy game involving conquest of igloo-building territory and materials.
And here are the little game pieces, drawn by the student in a drawing program, miniaturized, and mounted on foam squares. Have you ever seen penguin snipers or swordsmen? How about heavy gunners? Cavalry!??!!?

The Moon Song

I think you will really enjoy this.