Students build LEGO® communities
the Herald-Dispatch http://www.herald-dispatch.com/
January 30, 2012
HUNTINGTON

Liam Duergt of Southside Elementary School talks about his LEGO creation as he
and other Talented and Gifted students from Cabell County Schools participate in a LEGO event
on Monday at the Nick J. Rahall II Appalachian Transportation Institute in Huntington.
Huntington and Cabell County students got a lesson in community Monday using a basic childhood toy.

The first-and second-grade students from the area's Talented and Gifted classes worked together to create miniature communities with LEGO® materials at the Nick J. Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute.

Nearly 50 students took part in the hands-on activity, constructing places such as a zoo, airport, post office, community park and bank. The community also included modes of transportation such as cars, buses and horseback trails. After the entire community was completed, students worked together to build a railroad circling the community.

Prior to building, teachers work with students to brainstorm and research ideas about what is included in a community.

As part of the institute's Technology Transfer initiatives, an outreach program was designed to introduce pre-K through 12th­grade students to science, technology, engineering, mathematics, safety and communication concepts through hands-on outreach activities.

 
Linda Hamilton of Marshall University's Mathematics Department and the Rahall Transportation Institute
takes photos of Talented and Gifted students from Cabell County Schools
as they participate in a LEGO event on Monday at
the Nick J. Rahall II Appalachian Transportation Institute in Huntington.
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Photos by Lori Wolfe / the Herald-Dispatch
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