What a great way to end our agricultural engineering unit--combining what first graders have learned about the pollination system, materials and their properties, and the engineering design process!
Way to go 1st graders!
Agricultural engineers play and important role in all our lives. Since we all depend on agriculture in some way or another, their work is very important! First graders will be learning about plant and insect parts, and the role that both these organisms play as part of a pollination system. As agricultural engineers, they'll also be discovering some of the problems that can arise when the pollination system isn't functioning properly, and of course, they'll come to the rescue developing solutions!
With their last design challenge in action, first graders are putting everything they've learned to the test! Using what they know about materials and their properties, as well as the results of their materials tests, they are designing hand pollinators for four different flowers: a poppy, a Dutchman's pipe, a jack-in-the-pulpit, and a bucket orchid. Each flower is structured differently, and the hand pollinator for one flower must be best suited to reach in to the flower where the pollen is located. If their hand pollinator isn't successful at getting "lots" of pollen, they'll use the engineering design process to improve their design! What a great way to end our agricultural engineering unit--combining what first graders have learned about the pollination system, materials and their properties, and the engineering design process! Way to go 1st graders! Comments are closed.
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