Thursday, March 8, 2012

School fun (while learning): Building with cork

In my previous post, I wrote about the box of corks my daughter's first grade class was going to be building with. As they are learning about communities, building and recycling, their task was to design and build a structure of their choice using cork (and glue of course)! The students could choose from whatever cork material they could find in the box (similar components are found in the cork craft grab bag on the corkstore.com). They needed to come up with a plan, design it and then build it. Below are some of their creations: