gichi-manidoo giizis 2008 Little Spirit Moon – December Students focused on researching, experimenting and collecting data for their Science Fair projects. Some Science Fair projects required lots of help from friends – special thanks to all! Work continued on the manoomin project continued with LacCore.
Paper engineering was explored as students created original pop-ups with Gary Benenson, Mechanical Engineering professor and co- author or the hands on curriculum for K-8 students entitled Physical Science Comes Alive (City College, NYC) . The program in continually developing as it includes science, math, art and engineering principles. The program is being piloted in New York, Los Angeles and northern Minnesota (ISD2142) public schools.