Royal Library News
Spring 2019
What has happened at the library this semester?
Progress Report
Our library's STEAM program has been expanding. The Librarian facilitated a training for Science 7 teachers on the California Invention Convention program in February. This program brings STEAM education to the Ranch in several ways. The Open Source curriculum is the Next Generation Science Standard Common Core aligned, and utilizes a construct that asks students to identify a problem, employ problem solving and creative thinking processes to solve the problem, develop an invention idea, and finally build a prototype of the solution. Participating teachers were awarded a grant from Motorola to fund this program. Our school board approved the $1,800 grant on March 25th. Congratulations! We look forward to seeing student work samples displayed at an invention fair sometime this semester.