Our school is set in a suburban community, in a large metropolitan city. Even though it is in a large area, it feels like a small community, and sheltered from the bigger city.
We have a large population of students with deployed parents, as military housing sits adjacent to our school and in the surrounding area.
The students at our school come from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicities, and many students choose to come to our school from other neighborhoods.
Our school offers a challenging but rewarding program, with excellent, student-centered teachers. Our science lab serves all the children in our school, from TK through 5th grade, where students participate in hands-on science and engineering enrichment activities that help to prepare or encourage them to take on a science mindset and develop critical thinking skills.
My Project
Our Makespace and STEAM classroom is always looking for new projects and learning to engage student learning. The Engineering is Elementary STEM kits are wonderfully organized and designed for this purpose. They are easy to use for the teachers, as well as entertaining for the students.
My students often do not have an opportunity to focus learning on issues related to health, and have a lot of misconceptions on topics based on diseases, viruses, and what makes them sick.
This is an area that is not addressed in their elementary NGSS standards, and regular classroom teachers often do not have enough time to get to their health curriculum.
Bringing this kit into our STEAM Lab will help clear up these misconceptions in an engaging and fun way.
More than a third of students from low‑income households
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