Looking for posters for your STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) activities? These posters include the engineering design process and 21st century slills for innovators.SIX posters are included for the engineering design process: ask, imagine, plan, create, test, and impro...
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What Can You Create With A Cardboard Box? In this project, which serves as a fantastic introduction to project-based learning, students will use 21st century skills to create innovative uses for a cardboard box. They will use creativity and collaboration to brainstorm, plan, and build a box creation with a partner or group. Students will learn to use the critique process to give and receive feedback in order to revise their end product. Finally, pairs will exhibit their creations to an audience of their choosing. Throughout the project students will use the common core speaking, listening and writing standards to clearly communicate their ideas to their group and a real world audience. There are handouts, examples, a reflection, and a rubric included in this lesson. This project is designed to have a structure compatible with implementing PBL in the classroom. NextLesson projects include certain key components that facilitate an authentic PBL experience.
Student portfolios can help teachers, students, parents, and administrators recognize the value of a STEM program, and they can be a tool for identifying areas of challenge and growth beyond the subjects that are traditionally graded. As your students maintain their own portfolios, they’ll continually reflect on their STEM work and set related goals. You’ll empower them to take ownership of their own learning and help them to foster a growth mindset related to STEM content areas and 21st century skills, including collaboration, communication, inquiry thinking, and problem solving.
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Hello everyone! I am back to write about my recently uploaded April STEAM Activities resource. The STEAM Activities have been a HUGE hit in my classroom, so I cannot wait to continue them for the rest of the year!! The April STEAM Activities set also comes with five activities. I again tried to incorporate every letter of STEAM's acronym (science, technology, engineering, art and math) throughout the month's activities. Click here to find the link to the product. The first activity in my April STEAM pack is Amazing Umbrellas In this activity, students will use a pipe cleaner and a coffee filter to create an umbrella for the standing rainy day kids. They will first be able to get the rainy day kids to stand and attach the umbrella. Included in this activity are an informational sheet to teach about why it rains and a graphic organizer included to help students plan and improve their creations! The next activity in my April STEAM pack is Garden Growth Students will plant seeds in their classroom. Over time they will observe the plant to see how it grows. It is great because it can double as a gift for Moms and Grandmas for Mother's Day! Included in this activity are an informational sheets about Earth Day and what students can do to help make a difference. Also, there is a page to discuss the life cycle of a plant and a page to record their plant's growth over time. The third activity in my April STEAM Pack is Recycling Bin Sort In this activity, students will construct different recycling bins. They will then sort the recyclable items into the bins and create graphs to tell how many ended up in each bin. Included in this activity are informational sheets about recycling, graphing paper and recycling bin templates! Next in the April STEAM Activities is Easter Basket Building! Students will build an Easter Basket using tinfoil and pipe cleaners. They will then compare different classroom items to see how much their Easter basket can hold! The final activity in the April STEAM Activities is the Google Classroom and Lego lesson. Students will start on Google classroom. They will move the colored Lego pieces from the left side of the screen to the puzzle on the right side of the screen. This will help them build Earth Day themed things: a tree, the sun, a raindrop and a cloud. While the students are completing the Google Classroom lesson, they can color the graphic organizer to then visualize what each item should look like. Finally, they can use the graphic organizer to build with real Legos! The Google and graphic organizer are a great way for students to plan what to build! Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope these April STEAM Activities make Science class extra fun for you and your students! Enjoy! April STEAM Activities
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It all started with a field trip to the local trash dump and recycling center. The kids saw so much trash and recyclables in the dumping area. The workers were letting us know that we needed to help by reducing, reusing and recycling. They let us know that we were the solution the our worlds trash problem! When we got back to school, we discussed how we could help here in our classroom. We recycle paper and decided we needed to be diligent in continuing that. They became very intrigued by the thought of reusing or repurposing "clean" trash such as boxes and bottles, etc. I asked them what they thought they could make out of trash. They thought art and instruments would be fun! That didn't surprise me as I have a large group that is very much into abstract art. We started out by using paper tubes to create individual art pieces. They created art by dipping the tubes in white paint and then coloring them in with pastels. I layed out a provocation of paper tubes, glue and scissors to see what art they could create collaboratively out of this trash! They built up fine motor muscles by cutting the thick cardboard! After they filled it up we spray painted it together. Of coarse, they asked if they could add glitter since glitter makes everything more beautiful! They truly did create beauty out of trash! What a beautiful piece of collaborative art! At one point, one of my little friends asked about an art piece created by a past class of mine that is hanging in our room. He asked if that was made out of trash. I told him it was made out of plastic cups and was inspired by an artist named Chihuly. I asked if he wanted to see a picture of the inspiration. Here it is. Of course, other kids started coming to look at it so I put it on the promethium board. They saw other pictures of his art on google images and soon one yelled out, "We could make those! Could we make those out of trash?" Absolutely we can...and our Chihuly Inquiry was born. That very first experience already started inspiring some of my little friends to create! First we had to learn about Chihuly and how he creates his art. To investigate and dig deeper, we watched some videos to learn more about Chihuly. They were so fascinated they would not let me fast forward through any parts! They learned that he melts sand into a thick liquid and picks it up with a metal pipe, blows into it and spins it to create beautiful glass sculptures. Some are individuals such these macchias, and some he connects together to create larger sculptures like these. We collected trash to create with since that was our initial focus. We needed water bottles since we couldn't safely blow glass (though they wanted to try) and something for the macchias. I had some filters that had water color spilled on part of them so they had a pink blob on the side. We had read a story earlier called "Beautiful Oops." We felt that instead of throwing them away we could use the blob as a "beautiful oops" and work around it to create something beautiful such as Chihuly inspired macchias! The kids were able to be creative as they created designs on the filters with water based crayola markers. We layed them over a cup and sprayed them with starch. These macchias turned out so beautiful! I don't know if I will ever be able to send them home! The kids were also painting water bottles with acrylic paint to create our large scale collaborative art project. We needed a lot of bottles so this took a lot of time and patience on all of our parts! I cut the spirals in the bottles for them and they wired the bottles to embroidery hoops. We used a very strong floral wire so they had a really good workout to help develop their fine motor muscles. After attaching the hoops together it started to grow... and grow... and grow! Here is our finished Chihuly inspired chandelier. This was inspired by his Fireworks Chandelier hanging at the Indianappolis Children's Museum. I recommend going to see it! It is his largest chandelier sculpture with over 3000 glass pieces. They also have a glass Macchia ceiling the kids (and you) would love to see! Some kids brought in some bottles that were too stiff to cut so I showed them this sculpture and asked it they wanted to create something similar. The balls are made out of crumpled up old scholastic order forms wrapped in masking tape to keep with our "Creating Beauty Out Of Trash" theme. The bowl was getting ready to go to Good Will but we thought it would work well for this sculpture. Can you see the similarities? Mrs. Garrabrant had a beautiful book all about Chihuly and his art. After reading it, we found out that after he injured his eye, he started painting! This was a whole new inspiration for them! His art was very abstract and process oriented. He threw and squirted paint, he experienced all mediums such as pencil, charcoal, oil pastel and then fell in love with liquid acrylics. The kids were fascinated and it made me realize they really have a love for abstract art! Here are some of Chihulies paintings. We couldn't throw paint or squirt it in our room like Chihuly so I gave them dish brushes and crumpled paper so that they had new ways to enjoy the process of creating and make some textured background for their paintings. I have some photos of their finished paintings hanging in our hallway below. Many of the kids also started creating coffee table books of Chihuly's Art after looking at the one Mrs. Garrabrant let us borrow. Here is an example of one book showing the cover and pictures on each page. The kids also wrote about Chiluly. The one below is showing Chihuly holding the blowing pipe with melted glass at the end of it. It looks like he is making a Macchia! I loved the pictures of Chihuly they drew with this writing assignment. They even brought Chihuly into their play! The kids used the computer to pick their favorite piece of art created by Chihuly. They wrote their opinion on why they felt the art piece they chose was the most beautiful piece he created. They were not allowed to just say "because it's pretty." They had to think deeper and use their critical thinking skills and write WHY they thought it was pretty. We displayed documentation of our inquiry, showing our journey and the projects we created. This was such a fun inquiry! I had never done such an in depth artist study with Kindergartners before! I loved listening to the vocabulary they developed and used as they discussed Chihuly and his art with each other! I loved listening as they grabbed kids from other classes as they walked by and showed them our cChihuly gallery and told them about it. I loved when one grabbed a teacher and showed her their opinion pieces and then asked her, "So what is your favorite Chihuly piece?" It's hard to believe all of this beauty, vocabulary, and creativity all began with a trip to the dump...
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The following is a guest post from LaTrice Lyle . You can watch her video session on this topic in The STEM Teachers Club Membership . STEM and STEAM educators are well-versed in the 4 C’s, adopted from 21st Century education: collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.
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Diving into everything I can get my hands on regarding arts integration and STEAM, I wondered if there room for both PBL and STEAM in my school.
Bring Music to Life with Coding Calling all programmers and musicians! Rockin' Robots is your chance to use Sphero indi robots on a guided tour through the STEAMtastic fusion of music and robotics. If exploring songs, crafting instruments, investigating sound effects and designing a melodic coding challenge sounds fun, then this is the camp for you! Grades: 1-3 Students: Up to 30 Contact Hours: 12+ Subject Targets: Technology, Robotics & Coding, Art/STEAM, English Language Arts Connections Reusability and Expansion: Refill Kit Available: This product offers affordable consumable refill kits. See the materials tab for details.
These beautiful cross stitch projects were made by our 4th Grade students in Handwork class! At the Waldorf School of Princeton, "Handwork skills allow our students to experience STEAM (Science,...
One key tool for developing and assessing 21st century skills is by making thinking visible. Here are 13 visual thinking strategies you can use today.
The following is a guest post from LaTrice Lyle . You can watch her video session on this topic in The STEM Teachers Club Membership . STEM and STEAM educators are well-versed in the 4 C’s, adopted from 21st Century education: collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking.
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Mapping and Geography! Continent Twister is a fun way to encourage students to delve into geography and map skills. A twist on STEM / STEAM fun! This product directly correlates with the elements of a good STEAM project, 21st Century Skills, Next Generation Science Standards, and Project Based Learning. It’s all here, in one fun, interactive activity. Includes: →Project Break Down: 7 stages, designed to be easy to follow. →Teacher’s Notes: These are my thoughts and hard earned lessons from doing this project over the years. You won’t have to reinvent the wheel →Video Instructions for teachers →Mapping Skills Video Lesson - Use this with your entire class, for students that missed class when you taught it, to flip your classroom, or as a learning reinforcer to differentiate your instruction →Maps →Formative assessment to check for understanding prior to moving on to the map making. →Student Samples →Student Checklist →Grading Rubric What other teachers are saying ♦What a great way to make children think!!!! ♦This is such a simple, fun activity! I started out the year with my 5th graders completing this in groups. They loved it...especially when they were allowed to remove their shoes and play continental twister in their socks at the end. Thank you for sharing. ♦Using this with my 7th graders right now. They are having a great time creating this game. ♦Cannot wait to use this! I teach high school, and this will be my review/icebreaker next week! ♦Love it! Will be using with a group of 3rd-5th graders. I think this will be fun and a great group learning experience! ★Graphing and Measurement to make and read maps ★Engineering solutions to real world problems ★Problem Solving and Cooperative Group Work Next Generation Science Standards: SS.3.A.1.3 Define terms related to the social sciences. SS.3.G.1.1 Use thematic maps, tables, charts, graphs, and photos to analyze geographic information. SS.3.G.1.2 Review basic map elements (coordinate grid, cardinal and intermediate directions, title, compass rose, scale, key/legend with symbols) . SS.3.G.1.3 Label the continents and oceans on a world map. SS.3.G.1.4 Name and identify the purpose of maps (physical, political, elevation, population). SS.3.G.1.5 Compare maps and globes to develop an understanding of the concept of distortion. SS.3.G.1.6 Use maps to identify different types of scale to measure distances between two places. National Geography Standards: NSS-G.K-12.1 THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS Understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. Understand how to use mental maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context. Understand how to analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth's surface. NSS-G.K-12.2 PLACES AND REGIONS Understand the physical and human characteristics of places.Common Core Standards Addressed: Common Core Standards: 4th and 5th Grades: Chronological & Spatial Thinking 4. Students use map and globe skills to determine the absolute locations of places and interpret information available through a map's or globe's legend, scale, and symbolic representations. 6th Grade: Chronological & Spatial Thinking 3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic systems. Grades 6 thru 8: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: 5. Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest. Shari Bithell
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If you're on the lookout for high interest economics units for project based learning (PBL). Your upper elementary students will love the ideas presented here!
Learn how this teacher turned around a tough class using a points system and the 21st Century Skills as a classroom management tool.
