Expanding STEM on the Elementary Level
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Expanding STEM on the Elementary Level
- 1. Expanding STEM Learning on the Elementary Level Kimberly Bradshaw Tina Coffey Oak Grove Elementary Roanoke County Schools
- 2. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
- 4. “The best way to start is simply to start.” -Emily Pilloton Educator & Designer
- 11. Grade Level Training at District Office
- 14. School Level
- 15. Save Fred!
- 19. STEM Night
- 20. Career Day
- 21. MakerMondays
- 22. MakerWorkshops
- 23. Summer Camp
- 24. MakerShop
- 25. MakerClub
- 26. Level Up Village
- 28. 250+ Schools in the US Network 40+ Global partner Organizations 14,000 Students worked with a global partner to develop their STEAM & global competency skills 20+ Countries ~1,000 Videos Exchanged Per Week LevelUp 2012-2016 ~1600 Collaborations Per Month 20 In-school and After-school STEAM Courses 75% of 2017 Classes are In-School
- 30. Money
- 35. Teacher Buy-In
- 41. STEM Night
- 42. MakerCamp Guests
- 48. Level Up Village
- 50. When you do something for yourself, the thing that changes most profoundly is you. -Mark Frauenfelder editor-in-chief MAKE magazine
- 53. Webcast for VSTE
- 56. Knowledge is constructed, not transferred. – Peter Senge
- 58. “My point is a simple one: Your expectations can be a bigger obstacle to success than your students’ disabilities.” -John Franklin Stephens Special Olympics Athlete & Global Messenger
- 60. Middle School
- 61. The world no longer cares what you know. The world cares about what you can do with what you know. – Tony Wagner
- 62. Kim Bradshaw Tina Coffey www.learningcollaboratory.com Download Presentation and Learn more: kbradshaw@rcs.k12.va.us tcoffey@rcsk.12.va.us
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- Hands on – Opening Children’s Engineering Activity for Participants (Bling Your Badge) Your turn to try a Maker activity. Different colors of LEDs have different voltage drops, so not all work together.
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- Our Implementation of a Children’s Engineering Program on School/District Level
- District Level - Year 1
- Initial training from Virginia Children’s Engineering Conference (Chesterfield lady)
- Core STEM committee created their first design brief- Virginia Regions Mystery Boxes
- Train the Trainer (District STEM committee took what they learned back to the schools)
- District Level - Year 2 and 3
- Training by grade level at district
- Blackboard area to share design brief by grade level – Made a plan for how many Design Briefs each teacher needed to do (increased number each year)
- Share Fair by Grades/ Subject Areas
- Our Implementation of a Children’s Engineering Program on School Level
- STEM activity with faculty
- Design Brief Sharing at faculty meetings and demonstrated how they were used.
- Piloted Makerspace Program at OGE
- School-wide STEM Day – Cross grade level
- STEM Night with Exposure to Burton and other community STEM related groups and to bring parents on board with what we were doing.
- Career day has helped support STEM careers, especially depending on who was invited.
- Tina - Maker Mondays (Talk about parent response)
- Tina First Round of Maker Workshops-Digital Bling, Coding Craze, Roller Coaster, Racetracks and Marble Runs, Build a Bot, and Spheros.
- Tina--2 students from each school getting a makerspace during the following school year.
- Focusing on gaps and teacher/student struggles with the curriculum (examples: Makershop for Money and Measurement) Standards related!
- Using CAD software to design and 3D print the case for a solar flashlight.
- Plug for Level Up – Show flashlight
- Barriers and how we address them
- Barrier – Money
- Addressed by collecting recycled/donated materials
- Classroom Scholarships (Local Grant Program)
- Used staff development funds for teacher training
- Offered to pilot as many programs as possible. Actively sought opportunities to do so.
- Strategies for increasing Teacher buy-in
- Hesitant teachers -- Use of ITRT with hesitant teachers One of my goals—collected Data—use that data to target grades the following years
- Content/ Activity Alignment -
- Share Fair -- At faculty meeting and district level
- Kids spread the word – parents started asking because of afterschool camps
- Ideas for involving parents and the community
- STEM night
- Makercamp guests—building (Richard and JW, two middle school students)
- Partnership with SPED and Burton—free little library
- William Byrd Middle School partnership – created mini golf course
- Hollins Student Clubs
- Cave Spring High School students assisting with Level Up project
- Results in student attitudes and achivements
- Kim – Hayden “before”
- Became a leader in MS with homeroom
- Barnes and Nobel Makerfaire
- Hayden talking to people at Makerfaire Up next Brianna
- Grace – 3 weeks in
- Expectations…. We see this again and again.
- Student Confidence -- Talk about not wanting directions for STEM windmill
- Changes seen at middle school level
- Throw in slide for 4 Cs