Students of Mr. White's Project Lead the Way engineering class visited Ossian Elementary School to teach Mr. Harkless's third grade class about their marble sorters.
Mrs. Harkless's third grade class is currently taking part in a Region 8 project themselves. They are creating their own inventions out of provided Lego kits provided by Region 8. First, they created cars to race. Now they are sketching out invention ideas to create.
While I was there, Mrs. Harkless reminded the children of a very important aspect of creating their own invention."Remember kids, you are inventing something to make work easier," said Harkless. "That is your ultimate goal."
The only main difference between what the third graders are doing compared to the high school Project Lead the Way students is a matter of gears. The gears OES students are creating are manual ones that need to be turned by hand, while high school students gears are moved by electricity.
First, Project Lead the Way students showed the elementary engineers some of the preliminary projects they were asked to create before beginning their marble sorters. The preliminary projects brought to OES were a drill press, an elevator, and a pantameter.
After showing off some of their beginning projects, all of the students went to the computer lab to see videos of what the marble sorters were like before they were torn down.
