Sunday, May 27, 2007

School Projects


Well it seems that the end of the school year always brings lots of projects.
Don't know why that is but somehow it always seems to be this time of year or right around the holidays, when you are the busiest.
My youngest DD had to do a project for Science. They are studying the different space crafts that have been launched. Each student has to pick a different one and then they do their project on it. Collecting as many interesting facts, data and such as they can on the individual craft. Not always the easiest task on some of the earlier ones.
Her particular craft was the Freedom 7. It is funny how as I get older these projects really aren't so bad. See I was terrible at science and history when I was younger. They just weren't my thing. I really didn't get why we had to learn about things that didn't really affect our current lives. So now when one of my children has a project I somehow manage to learn something interesting. It is actually interesting to me now!
So, I helped her with this model. She had originally wanted to make it from popsicle sticks. Luckily, I found this tube from the inside of some wrapping we use at work. She was very happy with the way it turned out. I thought it looked pretty cool. So, since I haven't posted much lately I figured I would share this with you so you can see what other things I am involved in.

2 comments:

Peggy Maier said...

My 11 yr. old grandson would love this - he's into rockets big time! Your project really turned out great.

Karen said...

Great project........I give ya'll an A++