This year four STEM teachers are participating in a STEM-based study group through Boundless Readers to learn about teaching students to conduct student-centered inquiry projects. We have worked hard at asking questions and in November launched a mini-inquiry project into the human body. Students used internet resources and books to learn about different parts of the human body. Students asked their own questions about their self-selected body parts and tried to find the answers through research. When students were finished conducting their research, they created posters to tell about what they had learned and teach their classmates about the human body. It was a great project!
Students are learning about motion through centers provided through a generous Donors Choose grant. For the past few weeks students have been presented with design challenges involving motion. Here the students are investigating ways to make it more difficult for the red ball to go in the hole. Students record the different ways that they tried to solve the design problem in their notebooks.
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Mrs. McGrane
I love teaching kindergarten literacy at STEM! It is amazing to be a part of the reading and writing growth of a kindergarten student. You get to see kids move from knowing some letters and sounds to being enthusiastic readers and young authors. Archives
March 2016
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