STEM Day 2020
Edinburgh Community School Corporation
Special Edition Newsletter
Kindergarten
Making pizzas with moon sand made from flour and baby oil. They then had "orders" and had to place the right color and amount of beads or "toppings" on their pizzas.
Kindergarten
This week we read the fairy tales Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs. We used those books to springboard into STEM. We learned about gravity from Jack chopping down the beanstalk and practiced it by creating marble runs. We also built houses like the pigs, from straws, wood sticks and blocks. We wanted to see which construction was the strongest.
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
Robots, Rockets, and Body Systems
Small Group in 3rd Grade
Little House on the Prairie
How much weight did those conestoga wagons carry? The story, Pioneer Girl, by Laura Ingalls Wilder makes your mind wonder about what a family could carry inside those wagons on the wagon trails.Building a wagon was our mission and checking the weight it could hold with pennies was our intent.
4th Grade
5th Grade
HOLES
By Louis Sachar
Digging Tools
Questions:
How do I build a shovel that can carry a heavy load of dirt? What qualities must my digging tool have to be effective and efficient?
How much dirt can I move per shovelful?
How much dirt comes out of a hole that is 5’ x 5’ x 5’?
How long did it take the ‘campers’ at Camp Green Lake to excavate a hole that was 125 cubic feet?
Materials provided
Toothpicks
Dental floss
Tissue paper
Plastic straws
Aluminum foil
Tape
Design-
Construction of tools
Excavation
Moving the Dirt
STEM with Mrs. Shonk
5th Grade Hand washing challenge with Glow bug and tik tok hand washing.
2nd and 3rd grade paper airplane challenge.
Kindergarten -Code a mouse challenge
6th Grade
They will be creating algorithms, flowcharts, and programs to make the Microbits perform various tasks.
They will also be experimenting with various materials and how those materials affect performance.
Students will learn the relationships between input devices, processors, and output devices.
They will use accelerometers, LED grids, and other input/output devices during their course of study.
7th Grade
STEM newsletter
Compiled by Susan Pence
STEM coach
If you have anything you would like to highlight in your class about STEM please feel free to contact me.