"Space and Time: Navigation Through the Ages" was the theme for the first STEM Outside-The-Box (OTB) day for the seventh graders!
Here is a small sample of what the girls learned that was Outside-The-Box...
- How to geocache.
- It took 18th century clock inventor, John Harrison, four times to get his clock right.
- I didn't know anything about how early sailors figured out latitude and longitude before today, but now I know all about it.
- Ben and Jerry's factory is in Vermont!
- About the Compass Rose, using a map better, and how clocks are made
- Different types of map projections.
And some more thoughts on the girls reflections:
- I like it (The Mercator iPad activity) as is, it was really fun.
- My favorite thing was to see how Holton looked back in 1988.
