6th Period Fliers!

Ready to launch!:


Lexi, Jordan and Will built this remarkable aircraft that was designed with bio-mimicry principles in mind:


Blake and Jesse's airplane was perfectly balanced. Low and level flight gave it great distance results!:


The basketballs came out and it was all over for 6th period...

Wild Wings

One of the challenges for our Model Aircraft fabrication project is to come up with the neatest decorations in your class.

Here are a few designs under way in 5th and 6th period:

6th Period Puzzle Cubes in Progress

How Many Pieces are Possible?

We've had some great debates about how many puzzle pieces you can make with 5 cubes.

Here is one students start at a list of possible parts using 3, 4, 5 and 6 cubes. These are very nicely drawn (please use this as a standard to achieve in your part drawings):



I found the following list of solutions online. How many combinations are there with 5 cubes?

? - What math can we use to predict how many possible part combinations there are?
? - Do all of these parts meet our design criteria/constraints?

Lego Time!

We had some quality building going on today. Here are some of the guys from 6th Period hard at work:


Each student selected 25-30 pieces in turn from the available pool of parts. This meant it was more challenging to come up with a compelling design. Never the less, everyone seemed to create something interesting.

Will made an awesome chicken!:


Lexi made this neat tree that looks straight out of an 8 bit video game:


It's not easy making something from scratch. Nice job today 5th and 6th periods.

Be In Here!

(Generaly speaking), it pays to volunteer to go first/early when a group of people have to present. Your audience has less of an expectation and greater level of attention.

Student Blog Links: 6th Period

6th Period - please comment on this blog post with your blog title and blog url listed. I will use these addresses to make a list of class links on the right sidebar. Thanks!

As an example:
"Hi 6th Period! Hi Mr. Olson!
My blog is called Creative Problem Solvers!
The url is www.creativeproblemsolvers.blogspot.com"