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2nd grade inventors
By sally

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I think this would be a fun activity and even the family COULD be involved.

Make an assignment that each child is to collect a number (10, 15, ... your choice) of clean throw away items ( paper towel tubes, toilet paper
tubes, plastic pudding cups, plastic spoons, forks, piece of foil, plastic wrap, rubber bands, etc. etc, etc.) from home. Choose a number of items and all must fit inside a bag given for the collection, (like a paper lunch bag for example). The student and parent could talk about possible inventions that could be made with the stuff. If you would like they could even "build" the invention
at home, OR the bag of stuff could be brought to school and on a given day the children could start building. Invite the parents to come to school for the activity and all can build together.

 


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