Peep and the Big Wide World: The Whatchamacallit

Last week we noticed the students beginning to build tracks for their cars using big blocks. Next thing we knew they were racing the cars down ramps they had built on the end of the track. And so it begins....a look into ramps.

We started with this video, to get us thinking about

ramps and where we see them in our world. Our students came up with great ideas such as the park, the water park and a skateboard park. First we experimented with learning the difference between rolling and sliding. Jaxon told us that things that slide are flat. Kaiden figured out that things that have wheels roll. Noah told us all things that are round, roll. What a great inquiry.