Mission Space : Bonus Point Picks

As we continue to study space and our solar system, students have loved working on some option opportunity bonus points at home with their families. Here is a peek at some amazing projects from our awesome astronauts in training.

 

 Today Quest students participated in a S.T.E.M. experience that required them to use critical thinking skills to solve a problem. The students worked together with teammates to save Sam. 

This S.T.E.M. challenge requires students to work together to formulate a plan on how to rescue Sam and get him into his life preserve without falling into the water. The hardest part, was that students couldn't touch Sam with their fingers. They could only use paper clips to maneuver him around and free the life preserve from underneath the boat. The students loved this project and all agreed that several failed attempts made them stronger, and realized the importance of task commitment and communication.

"A Day at the Wax Museum"

                                                    "A Day at the Wax Museum"

Quest students have been learning all about inventions, and Influential People of the Past. Throughout this Unit of study, each student chose a person from the past that they wanted to learn more about. Upon choosing their person, the students researched many facts about them. They even learned how to create a Google Slide that told about their person of interest. The students dressed up like their character and the Quest class put on a show called, 

"A Day at the Wax Museum". It was a huge success and the students did an outstanding job!!! 

Post Card Project

We have been learning all about cool places around the world and famous landmarks. Throughout this unit of study, we have asked family and friends that live in other places to send us postcards. Here are some of the awesome places we received postcards from.

NASA

Quest students loved going to the Infinity Center at Stennis Space Center. We toured many new and neat exhibits, and learned all about space and science. We were very privileged to have guest speaker, Ronnie Rigney, talk with our class and tell us about the Saturn V rocket engine. The students have really loved learning about Space this year in Quest.