Turkey STEAM

 This week was filled with turkey challenges.

We began our STEAM afternoons by watching an informational video on turkeys. We learned some basic facts such as a male turkey is called a Tom and a female is called a hen.

Young children love new vocabulary and we learned two really fun words that elicited many giggles; SNOOD, and WATTLE. Ask your child where those parts of the turkey can be found.

The children were provided with a table filled with possible materials to create a turkey. They were given the opportunity to 'shop' for the supplies they would use for their turkey and got right to work.

So cute!

The next afternoon, the children were posed with an engineering challenge: DESIGN and BUILD a tower hideout that would hold a turkey and keep him safe from Thanksgiving Day hunters.

Architects began planning and drawing.

Then engineers got right to work.

Testing out the tower to see if the turkey could fit comfortably was quite a lot of fun!

Success by trial and error. The children made wonderful discoveries... very tall, skinny towers are weak and tend to tumble down. Towers with a larger base were more sturdy.

Is there anything these little learners can not do?