Last week, grades K-3 began a project to understand the geodesic dome, a design created by R. Buckmister Fuller in an attempt to create efficient structures that would require little resources and energy to build and run. This ties in brilliantly with our work with Global Goal #11 on the very first day of STEAM this year! Click the photo of the Montreal Biosphere to learn more about the history behind this famous, socially responsible design!
To begin, we revisited the idea of sustainable cities and why they matter (urbanization, overpopulation and drain on resources in cities, impact on climate change).
Then we talked about geodesic domes and where we have seen them before in our lives (Epcot Center, soccer balls, Dothan Brook playground). Finally, we learned how to make them ourselves, and in a throwback to our very first STEAM project with the pasta and marshmallows, we created individual geodesic domes, but this time with toothpicks!
Next step: building life-size models out of newspaper and tape that our students will actually be able to fit in! Stay tuned!
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