MX. RAMSEY
Donned in pajamas on the day before Winter Break, sixth grader presented a collaborative project they had been working on for months: the Sixth Grade Cardboard Arcade. The students presented the cardboard games they had made and the arcade had more than 20 playable games such as skee ball, ring toss, air hockey, and pinball. With over 80 students in attendance and taking part in the fun, these games had to stand up to the test of being played over and over again.
Luckily, the students mastered specific techniques for building structurally sound creations with cardboard earlier in the semester. For this unit, students followed the Engineering Design Process to prototype, test, and iterate new and improved versions of their games to make them the best they could be. A bonus part of the Sixth Grade Cardboard Arcade event: the prize table! It was stocked with desirable goodies such as candy, bookmarks, hand-drawn puzzles, and 3D printed keychains that were modeled and printed by students.
As an extension project, students replicated their cardboard arcade games as 3D models in TinkerCad.
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