Mission
To provide to students high quality, rigorous and authentic learning experiences designed to promote the creation and implementation of effective STEAM education that results in outstanding academic achievement for all students.
Goals
Students have the opportunity to participate in learning communities that maximize their individual potentials focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEAM) as well as connect Language Arts throughout the various lesson objectives. Students will be engaged in learning experiences that enable them to use their creativity, problem solving, critical thinking and logical reasoning to achieve the 21st century skills becoming effective learners, collaborators, communicators and creators. Students will demonstrate the willingness and ability to incorporate learning menus and project-based learning to monitor and evaluate their own learning experiences and progressions. Students will interact with their peers in activities and experiences that require high level thinking skills and the elements of STEAM.
S.T.E.A.M.
S.T.E.M.
(Connection to Common Core Math Standards and Next Generation Science Standards - NGSS)
Mathematics has been called both an art as well as the ‘science of patterns’ and initially developed to understand, describe, and manipulate the physical world through comprehension skills and critical thinking.
Math
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.C.3
Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.C.4
Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.4
Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.5
Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and mathematical problems involving volume.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.OA.B.3
Generate two numerical patterns using two given rules. Identify apparent relationships between corresponding terms. Form ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from the two patterns, and graph the ordered pairs on a coordinate plane. For example, given the rule "Add 3" and the starting number 0, and given the rule "Add 6" and the starting number 0, generate terms in the resulting sequences, and observe that the terms in one sequence are twice the corresponding terms in the other sequence. Explain informally why this is so.
Science
Through the study of physics, learn the natural laws of matter, motion, force, and time. Understand light, sound, and magnetism, and how our senses filter our experience of the world.
Technology allows us to use natural forces in new ways, to transform sunlight into power or electricity into light. Engineering, programming and robotics take STEM studies to the next level.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Standards)
Students who demonstrate understanding can:
K-PS2-1.
Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
K-ESS2-1
Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
K-ESS3-PS2-1
Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
Language Arts Standards
Reading
Fluency
RF.5.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
Fluency
RF.3.4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
SL.3.1c. Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.