The Three Little Pigs Part 1, 2, and 3!
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DAY 1: Getting Prepared and Learning From Our Mistakes This is a three part blog! Today we read the book The Three Little Pigs . There are so many versions and authors of this story, any one will do. I wanted the students to just understand that a house was built three different ways. Two didn't make it past the wolf and one did. The brick house was the strongest. After reading the story, we discussed the pros and cons of a hay, sticks, and brick houses. Our next STEM project will be very similar to this storyline. Today they looked at their materials and we discussed pros and cons to the materials: -variety of shape blocks (you won't know what shape you get -wooden blocks, arms length of tape OR -structure blocks, no tape OR -straws, all the tape you want OR Here were the pros and cons of each groups materials. You can see my students really thought about the materials and how if they used them what could go wrong and why they would want to use them. I then used the