Category Archive: Pigeons

Nov 14

One last Pigeon Adventure: Balloon Lego Cars. STEM for Girls activity

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As I thought about what to do this past week for STEM club, I couldn’t help but want to give the pigeon one last adventure. (The pigeon is carried over from our last week’s book Don’t let the Pigeon Ride the Bus ). The girls settled in to hear about the story and new STEM task that …

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Oct 31

Pigeons and parachutes continue

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This week in STEM club the girls, in true engineer form, continued thier pigeon parachutes by adding some modifications. They spent the first few minutes perfecting their parachutes and testing them out. This was the perfect opportunity to talk about the word drag. The girls learned that drag is air resistance. They know the more …

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