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Angie O'Malley

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...

Angie O'Malley

Windmill Blade Design

First grade has been working hard in their science unit in their classroom, using Engineering is Elementary Curriculum, where they are...

Angie O'Malley

St. Patrick's Day STEAM

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day in STEAM by making leprechaun traps! K-2nd grade students designed and built leprechaun traps with...

Angie O'Malley

Middle School Round 1

We are piloting a new program for our middle school. I was teaching a couple middle school study halls and we have decided to pilot some...

Angie O'Malley

Upcycled Marble Runs

In K-2 Morning STEAM, we used recycled materials to build our own marble runs. First, we talked about how marble runs work and the forces...

Angie O'Malley

Foil Boats

Kindergarten worked on creating foil boats that would hold as many marbles as possible. This lesson really drilled in the idea of...

Angie O'Malley

Earthquake Buildings

4th and 5th grade students have continued their earthquake unit by learning about earthquake safe buildings. They learned about three key...

Angie O'Malley

STEAM Visitor: ELF!

Kindergarten had a package delivered to the room right in the middle of my lesson! The package had a note that said an elf was being sent...