Five Oaks Middle School’s Library and Instructional Technology Teacher, Suzanne Peerenboom, is always researching new ideas to engage students. One of those ways was working with Rubik’s Cubes. She’s had her students design and build their own mosaic designs, learning how to solve at least part of the Rubik’s cube. They’ve even worked together to build big mosaic pictures of Nelson Mandela and the Mona Lisa. Unfortunately, they were limited on sets and how many classes could use them at a time.
“Our goal with Beaverton’s Choice was to purchase 100 Rubiks Cubes to be used by all grade levels for collaboration, design and engineering projects. We exceeded our goal, raising enough to purchase 144 cubes!”
— Suzanne Peerenboom, Teacher
Students have been able to work together in classrooms to design and build mosaics with the cubes. They have also been coming into the library on a daily basis to practice solving the cubes, sometimes competing with their friends for speed.
Look out for them to keep expanding and build bigger and better mosaics!
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