High Flying Challenge #4
You can find the this challenge and more at Delightful Learning blog. The original challenges were submitted each week. Since then the links have changed so I have removed them from this post. Visit here to see more about these fun challenges.
The Challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create an aircraft that will fly as far as possible and land on a target.
For this Challenge, the boys had their cousin join them. I don't have any close up pictures to show the details of the project (I was trying to let them work it out without feeling like I was hovering. ;)).
They started off with a fair amount of enthusiasm. 
And some intense strategy conferencing. 
And, within the time limit, launched their plane. 
That fell way short of the target. :) 
Okay, so they had fun. :)
On to the scoring:
20 pts. if the aircraft hit the target- 0
2 pts. for each foot the aircraft traveled- 14
Up to 30 pts. for creative use of materials- hmm... they were a bit creative, but not very practical. They had a lot fun just throwing all the materials on a paper airplane of sorts, so I'll have to brutal and say- 10
20 pts. for how well the team worked together- they worked very well together- 20
***I had each of the boys score themselves on how they felt they worked as team. Mark said 20, Paul gave an 18, Cousin scored an 18 too and James came in at 20.
We are going to do this challenge with our co op group, so I will post part 2 then.
It may look a lot like Christmas (if you look closely) in these pics, but that is just a sign of a procrastinating homeschool mom. ;)
The Challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create an aircraft that will fly as far as possible and land on a target.
For this Challenge, the boys had their cousin join them. I don't have any close up pictures to show the details of the project (I was trying to let them work it out without feeling like I was hovering. ;)).
They started off with a fair amount of enthusiasm. And some intense strategy conferencing. And, within the time limit, launched their plane. That fell way short of the target. :) 
Okay, so they had fun. :)On to the scoring:
20 pts. if the aircraft hit the target- 0
2 pts. for each foot the aircraft traveled- 14
Up to 30 pts. for creative use of materials- hmm... they were a bit creative, but not very practical. They had a lot fun just throwing all the materials on a paper airplane of sorts, so I'll have to brutal and say- 10
20 pts. for how well the team worked together- they worked very well together- 20
***I had each of the boys score themselves on how they felt they worked as team. Mark said 20, Paul gave an 18, Cousin scored an 18 too and James came in at 20.
We are going to do this challenge with our co op group, so I will post part 2 then.
It may look a lot like Christmas (if you look closely) in these pics, but that is just a sign of a procrastinating homeschool mom. ;)
I LOVED seeing this! *Ü*
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