The Works Museum brings science to life at Forest Lake Elementary

During the week of Feb. 20, Forest Lake Elementary hosted a Science Residency program with The Works Museum. Each year on a rotating basis, FLE hosts a weeklong residency program related to music, art, or science. The Works Museum units will help extend activities in the classrooms that are connected to each specific grade level and their content standards. The fourth grade will be focusing on the unit of super circuits and will experiment with the components of simple circuits such as power, loads, and switches. Students constructed and wired a motor-powered fan to take home.
Fifth graders worked with motor power and dug into what is inside a motor and how it works. They used magnets and electricity to build and experiment with “The World’s Simplest Motor” and created a crazy wigglebot to take home.broadstreet.zone(48036);
The sixth grade class tackled the unit of mixing molecules where they identified mystery chemicals by

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