STREAM - Ms. Hardy

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Preparing students to enter STEM careers in the future is not enough. Moving from a STEM to a STREAM curriculum model requires planning and staff development. The integration of Religion and the Arts into STEM content areas merges 21st century teaching and learning with the timeless truths of faith and beauty in all of the subject areas. This session shares successes and challenges about the journey from STEM to STREAM.

Grades 1- 3

Will  be finishing the recycling unit with a terrarium project. The project started with 3 grade and grades 1-2 will finish after the thanksgiving holiday. In this project they will use recycled 2 liter bottles, rocks, dirt and cat grass. Each student planted the cat grass in the bottle using specific instructions. While others were working on their bottles, the other half of the students learned about things that were living vs non living.

Students  will then be moving on to coding. Students in grades 2-3 were giving a letter where they were asked to color code different parts of the letter. For example; color the greeting blue, color the closing green, color the body red, color the signature purple and color the date orange.

1st graders were giving a color coding turkey, where they were asked to color code the turkey by number. For example color number 1 red, color number 2 green. These activities were a great introduction to coding.

Grades 4

The fourth grade has started using code.org. Where they write real computer codes using different games, methods and strategies.

Grades 5
In quarter 2 the fifth graders started with an engineering survey. The survey asked each students question and based on their answers it tells them what kind of engineer they would most likely become. After the survey the students were asked a series of question based on the engineer they were assigned. At the end of the assignment, each student picked a engineer to further research.

Students wrapped up recycling with another recycling webquest. Students were giving 20 question to research using the internet, books and or articles. It took a few weeks for the students to thoroughly research the questions, helping them learn how to do good research and use good sources. We will later use the research for Earth Day, where we will create a advertisement about the importance of recycling.