When Jeff was in school and had to write a short story, he gave it the title "The Short Story." His teacher wrote something like "creative title" on his paper. So, when I asked Jeff for a title for this post, that title is what I got.
To conclude our unit on the rise of Islam in the 5th-7th centuries, we made waterwheels. The Muslims used these to irrigate fields and grow crops such as sugarcane, almonds, and citrus fruits, which they couldn't have grown without the irrigation.
Here is a fun little video (above) of one of our waterwheels.
Here is the video which we watched to learn how to make them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUaaFE8regs
When some of the bowls weren't deep enough, my student engineers got blocks and extended the sides of the bowls higher.
To conclude our unit on the rise of Islam in the 5th-7th centuries, we made waterwheels. The Muslims used these to irrigate fields and grow crops such as sugarcane, almonds, and citrus fruits, which they couldn't have grown without the irrigation.
Here is the video which we watched to learn how to make them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUaaFE8regs
When some of the bowls weren't deep enough, my student engineers got blocks and extended the sides of the bowls higher.
And then I challenged them to figure out how to use their waterwheel to propel an object. Here is a short clip of one of the seventh grade groups which figured out one way to do it.
