Again this year we are lucky to be participating in the Junior First Lego League program. The topic this year is transportation. The kids need to pick an item and learn about how it is transported through the manufacturing process to the final consumer.
We are working with a team of friends and the kids have chosen windmills as our item (having seen the very large windmills being transported along the highway recently).
This program is an excellent way to teach teamwork skills, project management, research and presentation skills and to use as a starting point for interesting rabbit trails. We will be learning more about windmills and green energy in addition to transportation. We have arranged for a visit to a wind turbine test sit and an interview with the manager of a local wind turbine manufacturer. We are hoping for tours of a shipping dock and a trucking company. And the kids are interested in learning more about the large scale model of an Amsterdam Windmill which is at a local park, so we will be checking out the archives at our local museum to see if we can learn more about that.
Today we got together to share some of our research and to explore a bit about how windmills work. One of our team members is away, so next week we will be jumping into the building and presentation with both feet as our presentation is in early April.
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