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Hex Mazes

Fourth grade students have been busy designing and building mazes for vibrating bug toys. They worked this week to finish their designs....

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Rocket Launching!

Third grade finished designing their paper rockets this week. We launched them outside and many of them went a hundred of feet in the air...

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LED Whirlygig

To kick off K-2 morning STEAM, we created light up whirligigs. I made templates for the students with the traditional whirligig...

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Weekly Insights and Inspiration

This week was really busy! For the first time since school started kids seem to really have a grasp of how STEAM Lab works and have dove...

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Superhero Zip Lines

Earlier this week, I started a superhero themed unit with second grade students. Our first challenge was designing a zip line for...

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Bridges

First grade started a bridge unit today! I wanted them to be hands on from the very beginning so didn't do my usual background knowledge...

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Paper Airplanes

Kindergarten learned how to fold a paper airplane! This is a very important life skill, you know! They also learned that paper airplanes...

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Rockets

Third and fifth grades are learning about forces and motion by studying rocketry in STEAM! We began by learning about Newton's Laws of...

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Marshmallow Tower Challenge

One of our admin suggested we try the marshmallow challenge with staff members in a meeting about collaboration and communication. I was...

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Pause...

Sometimes you just have to take a moment to stop the lesson and watch the lightening, rain, and hail outside.

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