STEAM | Kindergarten to 6th Grade
Science, Tech, Engineering, Art & Math
Integrated skills that stay with children for life.
Grade 4: Electric Answer Board
We work with electric circles every year, starting in first grade. In fourth grade, the children constructed a "question and answer board," wiring the back so a buzzer sounded or a light went off when correct answers were selected. |
Grade 6: mBot Robots
Our 6th grade students constructed an mBot robot from a kit. They then used a coding website to code the robot to perform tasks such as rolling across a table or picking up an object. |
Grade 5: Battery Operated Cars
Students in fifth grade designed a battery-operated car out of recycled materials. They designed the body, the axle, the wheels, and how much power it would take for the electric engine to move the car. The final race was the best part! |
Grade 2: Light-up Cards
The second grade students made light-up Christmas cards. In the process, they learned the basics of electricity and how circuits function. |
Grade 4: Making 3-D Maps
The fourth grade students made a contoured, three-dimensional map of an imaginary national park. Prior to the construction, we learned where water would collect to form rivers and stream. We also denoted elevations and built to scale. |
Grade 1: Stop-motion Animation
The first graders worked in small groups to retell the story they wrote using animation. They molded clay figures and had them act out the story. They learned about sequencing, taking photos with a tablet, and creating a movie with pictures. |
Grade 5: Making a Piano
These students used a MakeyMakey board as an interface between the computer and some play dough to make a working piano. |
Kindergarten: Coding
As a way to start learning coding, these young children created mazes, then directed the mouse through them using the arrows on the controller. |
Grade 6: 3-D Printing
A sixth-grade student used 3-D software called Tinkercad to design a board game based on the book A Long Walk to Water. The pieces represent the characters. |
Grade 3: Testing Paper
The children folded paper into differently-shaped columns & experimented to see which one would hold more weight (rectangular prism, triangular, cylindrical or prism). Using one sheet of paper and 2 tiny pieces of tape, the children got the cylindrical column to support 9 books! |
Grade 4: Interview
The fourth graders participated in a live, online interview with a National Geographic paleoanthropologist named Ella Al-Shamahi. She talked to us from London, while the host, Mr. Steve, joined us from South Africa. |
Grades 2 to 6: Coding
We work on real coding with all children from 2nd through 6th grades. In this picture, the fourth graders were playing a relay game in which they wrote one line of graph code at a time, then debugged the mistakes their teammates made. |