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htmlText_010ECAAA_17F5_966E_41B3_4040AB7FAED2.html = Students do both hands on and virtual coding in our STEM lab. In the STEM lab we use platforms such as Scratch, Code.org, Tynker, Wonder (DashDot), and SpheroEDU to build programming skills and problem-solving skills.
Our Boost Makerspace serves as a space where students of different learning styles come together to practice leadership, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking to solve problems. Here students come for 30 minutes a day for a few weeks at a time and follow a train the trainer model. Through completing a challenge they become experts in an area so that they can later lead their classmates.
Students use the green screen pods to record videos on Flipgrid as well as film morning announcements.
Robotics are used from Kindergarten through fifth grade. Students start by learning basic directional programming, and advance to using block coding. Robotics are integrated into various STEM challenges throughout the year. For example, students in 5th grade design a greenway for the community that crosses a creek by school, and when they build their model, students use block coding with Spheros to model how they would travel the greenway and cross the creek successfully.
Part of our engineering program is making connections to the real world and forming partnerships with businesses and organizations. Through our Citizen Science connection to NC State students piloted and continue to participate in their Ant Picnic activities- the Never Home Alone iNaturalist insect project that is now used in classrooms across the world.
Legos can be seen all throughout our school but especially in our STEM lab. Students use Legos as well as Lego robotics to build and design. They may be building towers, animal habits, or even coding a LEGO robot to complete a task.
This furniture was earned through a grant a former group of fifth grade students completed. They built a mockup of our school in Minecraft and planned a new design to encourage collaboration outside the regular classroom. Here you can find students doing just that! Classes come to work in small groups, as a class, and even as an entire grade level.
We have several 3D printers at our school that students use to bring their digital creations to life. Students create work that will solve problems, show understanding, create connections with the community, and raise awareness for problems they are working to solve.
Students use Minecraft Education to work together both in person and in a digital world. Through collaboration they build structures, define biomes, empathize with refugees, create new sections of the school, and much more all while making connections to the content they are learning.
Students follow the engineering design process to solve real world problems in our Makerspace. They begin with Asking what the problem is, then imagining ideas, planning a solution, creating the solution, and then improving what they created!
This space allows our Makerspace to extend outside for challenges and collaboration. Students have room to test their stem challenges like rockets, parachutes, cars, and other creations that need more room to fly or move.
Our building has several open air courtyard areas where students can work with teachers and instructional assistants. Students and teachers enjoy working outside during Boost time or small group instruction.
Students work in groups to engineer solutions to a problem. They use a Scrum Board to help manage the tasks that need to be done. As students collaborate they can look at the Scrum board to know what needs to be done so all students are involved and working towards a common goal.
Engineering is Elementary is the engineering program we use in our Makerspace. This was created by the Boston Museum of Science and it connects real world learning and engineering to a challenge that our students complete in our Makerspace over a two week period each quarter.