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Science/STEM

Science Technology Engineering Math

The word STEM in bright letters surrounded by science and math doodles

Earth Day

Students learned about the importance of keeping our Earth clean and ways to do so. Then they practiced what they learned and Reduced, Reused and Recycled in order to make amazing art and science projects.

  • Student beside a hand-print Earth mural
  • Keep It Safe hand-print Earth bulletin board with student writing
  • Student holding her Earth Day promise letter
  • Student holding a Keep It Safe drawing in front of the hand-print Earth
  • Students at spaced-out desks with their Earth Day projects
  • Two mini terrariums made from recycled plastic cups
  • Student holding a mini terrarium made from a recycled cup
  • Student giving a thumbs up with his recycled-cup terrarium
  • Students building egg-carton Mancala boards
  • Students painting egg-carton Mancala boards at their desks
  • Student holding up a recycled bottle project in class
  • Students showing their painted egg-carton Mancala boards
  • Student cutting up a recycled egg carton
  • Student painting a recycled egg carton

Kindergarten

  • All About Birds

    What is a birds habitat? What do they eat?

  • All About Plants

    What are the parts of a plant? How do plants survive?

  • Student making bird feeder
  • Students observing bird feeder they made
  • Students making bird feeders
  • Students observing the bird feeder they made
  • Students drawing the parts of a plant at their desks
  • Student with her labeled drawing of a plant's leaves, stem, flower and roots

First Grade

  • All About Light

    How does light work? How do you make a rainbow?

  • All About Natural Resources

    How does mining affect natural resources?

  • Student using a magnifying glass to look at a stick bug
  • Student tracing light patterns on a metal cabinet
  • Student pointing to a rainbow of light on the wall
  • Student making a rainbow on the floor with a prism
  • Student holding her hand in a patch of rainbow light on the wall
  • Student pointing at a rainbow made by a prism on the floor

Second Grade

  • All About Natural Resources

    How does mining affect natural resources?

  • All About Earth Day

    How can we reduce, reuse, recycle? Art and Science teamed up to create Mancala sets by reusing egg cartons.

  • Students building egg-carton Mancala boards
  • Students painting egg-carton Mancala boards at their desks
  • Student painting a recycled egg carton
  • Student holding up a recycled bottle project in class
  • Students showing their painted egg-carton Mancala boards
  • Student cutting up a recycled egg carton
  • Student worksheet comparing a cookie before and after mining for coal
  • Student mining chocolate chips from a cookie with a toothpick
  • Students mining cookies at their desks to learn about natural resources

Check out the school stickbugs!

Students learn all about their life cycle, habitat, features, diet and more.

  • Student with a stick bug on her shoulder
  • Student watching a stick bug crawl across his desk
  • Student letting a stick bug walk on her hand
  • Student holding a stick bug on her finger
  • Student watching a stick bug on her desk
  • Student with a magnifying glass and a stick bug on his desk
  • Student with a stick bug crawling on her sleeve
  • Student with stick bugs on the class plant
  • Student looking for stick bugs on the class plant
  • Student with stick bugs on the class plant
  • Student using a magnifying glass to look at a stick bug
  • Student holding a stick bug and her paper-plate chameleon project
  • Student holding a stick bug and her paper-plate spider project