Grade School

An interactive display that will have examples of wing construction, design and evolution. Small interactive displays that will teach how a wing makes lift, why all the different designs, why the first designs didn't work, aviation/aircraft today and aviation career paths. These stations will be complimented by volunteers giving kids a chance to build an easy model to take with them or participate in a paper airplane "length of flight contest" with a small prize for each heats winner!

At the “Fleet Science Zone,” visitors age 6 and older are invited to build, create and explore. Activities will highlight aspects of Fleet Science Center’s Tinkering Studio.

An exploration from native San Diego plant communities to the Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem. Come #FindYourPark beyond the park as we showcase all the natural resources of Cabrillo National Monument.

In this booth, we will demonstrate how to make "video game controllers" out of cardboard, foil, glue, makey makey (makeymakey.com) devices, and a laptop. Students will go through 2 different stations: controller design and testing. The design station will be cutting out and decorating a cardboard controller. The testing station will be hooking up the controller to a makey makey and using it to play 1 level of Guitar Hero, Super Mario Bros, or game on Scratch (scratch.mit.edu) on our laptops.

The booth will be a hands on interactive booth. It will showcase our after school Maker Club. The students in the club built a ball ramp maze wall that has moveable pieces so that others may make their own maze. The booth will also include other student created STEAM items.

Our booth will contain a hands on engineering activity designed around the NGSS practices. Students and parents will design and build brides together. We are focusing on the engineering design process to have students, parents and community members to ask, explore, model, evaluate and explain.

Students will showcase PBL activities along with interactive, hands-on engineering challenges.

showing student work from across the district

This year we would like to have 3 different projects to present to the students.
1. Organ matching board: This is a fun activity for younger kids (elementary) to try to match the cartoon organs to the appropriate function and associated disease.

Life Science - Exact activity and theme TBD