Susan Burkart’s second-grade class at Bayview worked with STEM lab teaching assistant Carla LaBombard to build barriers for “creepy carrots.”
The activity began with a reading of the Aaron Reynolds book “Creepy Carrots!” The students then faced a challenge. Using 16 clothespins and eight large popsicle sticks, the second graders had to figure out how to create fences to keep the creepy carrots in the garden. The fence had to stand on its own, and as the students were building, they had to reflect and make improvements to their fences.
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