We got cool new stuff!!! Thanks to our latest donorschoose.org grant, we got a ton of exciting new engineering centers! Among many awesome materials we received were some great engineering centers that ask the students to solve problems from our favorite folk tales - rebuild a chair that Goldilocks broke, rebuild a bridge for the 3 Billy Goats Gruff, and build a house for the 3 little pigs that won't blow over. I think that the students' favorite center is the magnetic roller coaster where they build tracks to try to get a plastic cog to roll into a certain basket. My favorite part of this Donors Choose project is that this grant allowed us to get each student a STEM notebook where they draw plans for their solutions to each design challenge and record the results from testing those designs.
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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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