2nd Grade's Whacky Contraptions!

This week Second Grade students were introduced to Crazy Machines. In this program, students get to turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and use catapults or any objects to build crazy machines.  The program gives students the ability to create their own unique contraptions and solve more than 200 challenging puzzles. They can use a cool physics engine with air-pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects and experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in your own virtual lab. This was the first time we have used the program, so we started out in the Inventor's Laboratory solving his puzzles. For some students the problems proved a little tricky and they got a bit frustrated - but it was a great lesson in 'If at first you don't succeed, try again - but try something a little different'!