GRA - Going Places

This week we finished our final Peter Reynolds book "Going Places". The last 5 weeks were incredible! We had a tremendous amount of fun reading various Peter Reynolds books, as well as connecting and interacting with many classes throughout North America.

As stated in the video above:

 This book is a celebration of the creative spirit and thinking outside the box! 

For Going Places, students were given a challenge. In groups, they were given a bag of supplies and had to demonstrate cooperative learning while creating a mode of transportation. The rules of the project were simple:

- create some mode of transportation (could be a combination of things that exist, could be something completely made up)
- work cooperatively (Each member of the group had to participate, their opinions had to be heard and compromise was the key!)
- could only use the supplies given in their baggies 
- be able to describe what they built, how it works and why they chose that particular design 

The FINAL products:

 

The Airplane                       Fish-Airplane

 

Dolphin Airplane                                      

Boat-Car                                   Car 

2A is full of extremely creative, outside the box thinkers! What a fun and engaging project. I am so proud of the work the students produced, but more importantly, however cooperatively they all worked together! It was a great ending to a great Global Read Aloud :)