Monticello Live

Drew Central fourth graders eagerly took on the Christmas STEM Challenge “Candy Cane Calamity”.  STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.  Students worked in teams and designed and built a way to safely “mail” two candy canes in one paper bag package without breakage.  Students were required to follow criteria and constraints. Once the packages were complete, students weighed them in grams and used a grams to ounces converter website.  Next, they used Chromebooks and researched FedEx, USPS, etc. rates to mail their packages to Santa at the North Pole aka Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole.  

 

One fun fact discovered by students was no packages are directly shipped to The North Pole. Instead packages must be shipped to Nunavut, Canada which is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.  Then, they compared shipping rates and selected the one that offered  the cheapest rate. Last, students tested the package by holding it in the air and dropping it to see if the candy canes would break..  

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