Flower Pen Factory

Our Busy Bees and Super Flower Power Shop pen factories filled all orders and closed up shop on Friday, February 5. Each student had a job as a pen cap popper, green tape cutter, scotch taper, green tape wrapper, quality control employee, or checking and packing orders. It was such a fun, hands-on way to learn about Economics. We raised $50 each class to help care for an animal at the Houston Zoo, and other profits were used to donate to the American Cancer Society. We thank all our customers (consumers) for contributing to our factory and charitable contributions!

Searching for Treasures

Paleontologists learn about the past by digging up and studying fossils. We pretended we were paleontologists and worked with picks (toothpicks) to get the chips out of chocolate chip cookies without breaking the chips. Then we ate the fossils and rocks (cookies and chips).

More Future Paleontologists

Future Paleontologists

We have learned about fossils, what they are, and how they are formed. We experimented with making imprints with objects in Play Dough, and trying to guess what made the imprint. In some of the photos, some students' backs may be turned, or eyes covered, while another student makes the imprint. Guessing what made the imprint is harder than it seemed at first. Science is fun!

Flower Pen Factory - We worked so hard!

We are learning about Economics in Social Studies, and marketed, sold, made, and packaged hundreds of flower pens on our first factory day, Friday, January 29. Everyone had a designated job in our factory, and also helped out wherever needed. We met all of our deadlines! We are donating our profits to charity. Each class is adopting an animal at the Houston Zoo, to help with its care and feeding. All of the remaining proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society. Here are a few pictures of the morning class in action.