by Meredith Martin | Apr 28, 2015 | programming, resources, STEM
Last week, I splurged and bought the boardgame Robot Turtles to try out with my primary students. The new tech standards for NJ have a strong focus on programming concepts in the early grades, and I had heard a lot about this unplugged activity for grades K-1. The...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 27, 2015 | STEM
Friday was the big day. My fifth graders had completed their Mars Landers and were ready for the big egg drop. We invited the other classes to attend if they were able, and at 1:30 all of the fifth graders and a large portion of the rest of the school assembled on...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 17, 2015 | Chromebooks, resources, Science, STEM
Today we started our first lesson that includes 3-D printing! I am very excited, and so are my students. For this lesson, fourth graders are learning about ecosystems and the animals and insects that live there. Students choose an ecosystem to research, and design...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 16, 2015 | Science, STEM
Another day, another genetics lesson. I love this topic, and there are so many neat ways to teach it. This time, I used a lesson I found on TpT called Monster Genetics. What a huge hit! We started by talking about genes and how traits are passed on. We discussed...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 16, 2015 | resources, Science, STEM
I had a request from a fourth grade teacher for a STEM lesson about human body systems. Since that’s a pretty broad topic, we narrowed it down to the circulatory system. After some online searching, I stumbled across this awesome circulatory system...
by Meredith Martin | Apr 14, 2015 | resources, Science, STEM
I had a great STEM lab today, trying out one of my new genetics lessons. One of my sixth grade classes came down and we did the Easter Egg Genetics lab. Students had to use punnett squares to determine the potential offspring of different egg colors. We used...
