This week, the students finished their large recyclable roller coasters. Team KABOOM, Team Inventors, and Team Engineers successfully completed the task—getting their marble to roll through a hill, loop, and turn and then land in their catch five times in…
STEM: Discovery [Week 5]
STEM: Discovery Gets Rolling [Week 4]
This week, we moved on to our biggest project! Students worked in teams of three or four to build roller coasters out of recycled materials. They began the process by testing parts of rollercoasters to see how they work and…
STEM: Discovery [Week 4]
STEM Discovery [Week 3]
STEM: Discovery Catapults into Week 3 [Week 3]
This week we learned to efficiently use materials to minimize our waste. To do this, we learned about a money system that incorporated our previous lessons on states of matter. Students were able to purchase materials as a group to…
STEM Discovery Gets a Reaction [Week 2]
Students in STEM Discovery started off their week by experimenting with different recipes to make play-dough. Students had to determine why some were dry, some were oily, and others were sticky. They continued their week with chemical reactions. They inflated…
2019 STEM: Discovery – Week 2
The Summer of STEM
This summer we are offering two fun STEM classes, STEM Workshop: Science Olympics and Explorations in STEM: Discovery. Both classes started off the week with a cup stacking team activity. Science Olympics This week our students created Lego bridges to…