Week 1 - Surviving Elementary Engineering

     I survived and enjoyed the first week of teaching elementary engineering.  I came into a classroom that hadn't changed much in the five years our school had been open.  Therefore, I decided to create a scavenger  hunt for the our first time together.  My goal was to help familiarize new students to the lab and give returning students a chance to learn where I moved things to.  Since I was working with students as young as kindergarten, I used pictures for the scavenger hunt worksheet.  My second goal was to include some fun items to find and give them practice finding the resources they would need in class.  All the grade levels seemed to enjoy the scavenger hunt, and it provided an opportunity to reinforce the lab rules.  Next week we build!