We're working on a cast!

Today was a great session!

Luke and Zoe learned to use the Lego digital designer today.

The first design challenge was to just build for fun. Zoe chose to build an alien whereas Luke chose to build a tree.

Luke loved the eyes that Zoe added to her design. He also like the textures that she used because she combined both bumpy and smooth pieces. She also added a fireman with a brown coat because her alien was a fire alien.

Zoe loved Luke's tree design because it had branches and different colors. Luke also used a new building technique because he added pieces from below instead of stacking. His tree had opposite branching and Zoe thought it looked like a Palm Tree.

We then took some time to discuss our favorite medical technologies. We made a list of what we liked about each technology.




Zoe liked casts because she wanted to know how to put one one. Luke liked casts because you can add your name to it!

Zoe could not think of what she liked about a wheelchair but Luke knew that he liked electric ones that can move on their own.

Luke liked the fact that ambulances are red and Zoe liked the sounds.

We then shared the things we liked and chose our favorite two technologies. Luke liked a cast and a wheelchair the most and Zoe like the cast and the wheelchair the most too. However, Luke reminded us that he really wanted to learn about cots. Zoe also wanted to learn about cots but she especially liked oxygen tents because her sister needed one when she had the croup.

We then took a break and did a quick build on something healthy. Neither Luke nor Zoe could identify their partner's construction but Luke liked the colors and the mix of textures. Zoe used red, yellow and brown.
Luke's shape was tall and thin and used three colors, gray, white and black.

 Zoe then explained that health to her was spaghetti with meatballs and Luke explained that his shape was a tooth brush. They both laughed because their shapes both had to do with mouths.

We then watched a video on how to make a cast to see if this would make us want to learn more about casts.
http://suppliescentral.net/instructions.html

When we finished the video, we were sold. We want to make a lego cast and we will research the important parts of a cast for our next meeting!