STEM Literacy
This program will not be offered this year.
The 21st century requires a new kind of learner - not someone who can only answer by rote, but someone who can think and solve problems. STEM Literacy is more important than ever in today's educational world. A child that is STEM literate approaches problems knowing that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are connected.
We teach the skills that students need to meet the demands of STEM literate world. Our age appropriate activities offer hands-on, minds-on experiences that go way beyond just learning facts. Each activity produces explicit learning outcomes.
We teach the skills that students need to meet the demands of STEM literate world. Our age appropriate activities offer hands-on, minds-on experiences that go way beyond just learning facts. Each activity produces explicit learning outcomes.
Curriculum Focus: Students will be introduced to both WeDo Robotics and Hands-on Science.
WeDo Robotics- The project-based activities enable students' skills and understanding in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as well as language and literacy. The collaborative nature of this tool also helps students develop a range of critical skills that apply outside of the classroom, including problem solving, communication, and cooperation.
Hands-on Science- Science is all around us every day! From baking a cake to blowing bubbles even ordinary life moments are often full of science. These can be turned into 'aha' moments and fun science discussions.
In class activities range from cool experiments in Physical, Chemical and Life Sciences to structural engineering. Students work individually, in pairs and as a team.
Recipe for a Science Lesson
WeDo Robotics- The project-based activities enable students' skills and understanding in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as well as language and literacy. The collaborative nature of this tool also helps students develop a range of critical skills that apply outside of the classroom, including problem solving, communication, and cooperation.
- Think creatively to make a working model
- Develop vocabulary and communication skills to explain how the model works
- Establish links between cause and effect
- Reflect on how how to find answers and imagine new possibilities
- Brainstorm ideas and bring some of them to fruition
- Make systematic observations and measurements
- Follow 2-D drawings to build 3-D models
- Think logically and create a program to produce a specific behavior
Hands-on Science- Science is all around us every day! From baking a cake to blowing bubbles even ordinary life moments are often full of science. These can be turned into 'aha' moments and fun science discussions.
In class activities range from cool experiments in Physical, Chemical and Life Sciences to structural engineering. Students work individually, in pairs and as a team.
- Encourages questioning of the observed events and the resulting data. When students carry out their own experiments, they become very familiar with the events and the variables involved
- Promotes cause and effect thinking
- Reduces dependence upon authority. Practical experiences in generating hypotheses and planning experiments make the students more independent and confident
Recipe for a Science Lesson
- Option 1: Find a puddle and photograph it. Show the photograph to a seven-year-old child. Have her read about puddles. Later, ask her to talk about the puddle.
Option 2: Find a puddle. Add one seven-year-old child. Mix thoroughly. Stomp, splash, and swish. Float leaves on it. Drop pebbles into it and count the ripples. Measure the depth, width, and length of it. Test the pH. Look at a drop under a microscope. Measure 250 mL of puddle water and boil it until the water is gone. Examine what is left in the container. Estimate how long it will take for 250 mL of puddle water to evaporate. Time it. Chart it. Now ask the child to talk about the puddle.
If you were a seven-year-old child, what option would stimulate you to talk about the puddle? That's what hands-on science is all about - allowing students to experience science fully" (Donivan, 1993, p. 29)
Scientifically literate students understand how to use Life, Earth/Space, and Physical science content skills and processes to understand the natural world.
Technologically literate students understand that technology is the innovation or manipulation of our natural environmental resources that help create and satisfy human needs.
Engineering literate students understand technologies are developed through engineering design processes, and how the application of science/math are used in the creation of these technologies.
Mathematically literate students understand how to analyze, reason, and communicate ideas effectively. They can pose, formulate, solve and interpret solutions mathematically in science, technology, and engineering situations.
Technologically literate students understand that technology is the innovation or manipulation of our natural environmental resources that help create and satisfy human needs.
Engineering literate students understand technologies are developed through engineering design processes, and how the application of science/math are used in the creation of these technologies.
Mathematically literate students understand how to analyze, reason, and communicate ideas effectively. They can pose, formulate, solve and interpret solutions mathematically in science, technology, and engineering situations.
Program offered to Grades: 1, 2
Program Fee: Please contact us for details
Program Fee: Please contact us for details