Have A Great Vacation!

Our vacation week is also National Engineers Week. What do you think engineers do?

Engineers come up with creative and practical solutions to problems that people encounter everyday.

In the cafeteria, we use sporks to eat lunch. The spork is a hybrid of spoon and fork. It is a cost effective way to insure that you have both a fork and spoon for whatever lunch is served on that day. Our school sporks are made of plastic, but, sporks can be made from lots of other materials.
Can you think of anything that has been re-engineered or changed from its original design?



The PBS show ZOOM has a website with lots of great engineering activities. Check them out :)
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/#engineering
Try some at home with your family. Make sure to read all of the directions and list of materials needed. Bring in a picture of the activity you decided to try.