November STEAM
At the core of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) education is the Engineering Design Process. Through this process students ask questions, imagine solutions, plan for making, create, test their design, and then improve their creation. Students have been working through this process all year long through a variety of design challenges. In STEAM, the students focus on skills such as creativity, problem solving, and perseverance all through collaboration with a group.
So far this school year, children have engaged in a variety of steam challenges such as:
*Building a stand for a cauldron
*Learning about different spider webs and creating their own
*Experimenting with Indi Sphero robots
*Creating Lego marble mazes
*Learning about symmetry and designing a symmetrical skeleton
*Planning with a group to make the strongest bridge
*Discovering force through coin coasters
AND MANY MORE!
The year has started off well with students jumping right back into collaborating with one another successfully. I have seen great improvement in this area already. Looking forward to a year full of learning through problems and projects!
Please feel free to contact me via Bloomz or email (vansteenish@gaylord.k12.mi.us)
All the best,
Heather Van Steenis