Schools across North Texas are preparing students for the solar eclipse on April 8. For a couple teachers in McKinney and Dallas, these lessons involve LEGOs.
Schools across North Texas are preparing students for the solar eclipse on April 8. For a couple teachers in McKinney and Dallas, these lessons involve LEGOs.The students learn what a solar eclipse is through a hands-on experience.Brick by brick, 5th grade students at Dallas ISD's Maple Lawn Elementary School put the pieces together to create a solar eclipse. The lesson happened ahead of the April 8th solar eclipse which will be seen in totality throughout North Texas.
"Hopefully they’ll be able to explain it to others, and hopefully when we get the motors working, you know the tilt of the earth, then they can say, ‘Hey, this is what I learned in science class today,’" Gier added.FOX 4 asked the students to find out what they thought of the lesson.
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