(COLORADO SPRINGS) — On May 8, 12, and 13, students from Colorado Springs School District 11 (D11) prepared for liftoff with the second annual Rocket Day Peak Experience.
According to Merideth Brodeur, a fifth-grade teacher with D11, for about two weeks, students have been building rockets from a kit. The students learn about gravity, flight, force, pressure, engineering design, and problem-solving through hands-on instruction.
“There is only so much that they can learn while in the classroom. Being able to actually use their hands, build the rockets, and then see the full circle of the rockets getting launched,” said Brodeur. “It makes the learning a lot stickier to their brain so that they’re going to remember this experience for a long time.”
D11 said Rocket Day is part of its growing Peak Experiences initiative, a series of hands-on experiential learning opportunities designed for every student at every school…