STEM: Pumpkin Push

For our STEM challenge this month, students worked as a team to design something with two planks and two chairs to make a medium sized pumpkin go the farthest with just one push.  They measured the distance with yarn and then measured the yarn with unifix cubes (grouped in 10’s).  It took a lot of counting by 10’s, but can you believe the longest distance measured 1,200 cubes long? Wow!  A slope in the asphalt and gravity really helped with that push 🙂