Submitted by Emma Santucci, Kristen Listman, Samantha Skazis, Stephanie Mueller
3rd and 5th Grade Teachers , Church Lane Elementary School
3rd and 5th Grade Teachers , Church Lane Elementary School
This school year curiosity about Maker Space has filled our CLETS classrooms. Teachers are eager to incorporate maker learning into their instruction and students are motivated to create! As the Maker Liaison, I constantly supporting teachers with their making wonderings. Some teachers have started right away and others are on the path to embedding it into their instruction. My Team Building Tuesdays (TBT) will also have some maker learning activities for teachers to engage in before bringing it into the classroom. Check out how our 3rd and 5th graders have explored with Maker Learning this quarter:
For our Unit 1 ELA culminating event, third graders researched an endangered animal. Addressing the essential questions from the unit, students looked at the relationship between humans and their animals. Students transformed their research into digital presentations using tools like Discovery Education boards, Wixie and Power Point. After researching, we dove into an exciting maker challenge. Using the engineering design process, students determined what problem their animal faced. Then they worked in groups to build a prototype of something that could help solve that problem. Using cardboard and Makedo tools, students created reservations to protect red pandas from poachers, water filtration systems to clean the oceans for the sea lions, jungle alarm systems to warn jaguars of approaching danger and fish traps to round up food for the polar bears to eat. Throughout the project, students showed their creativity, collaboration skills, and problem solving strategies. We finished our week by using Flipgrid to share our final projects with our classmates.
For our Unit 1 ELA culminating event, third graders researched an endangered animal. Addressing the essential questions from the unit, students looked at the relationship between humans and their animals. Students transformed their research into digital presentations using tools like Discovery Education boards, Wixie and Power Point. After researching, we dove into an exciting maker challenge. Using the engineering design process, students determined what problem their animal faced. Then they worked in groups to build a prototype of something that could help solve that problem. Using cardboard and Makedo tools, students created reservations to protect red pandas from poachers, water filtration systems to clean the oceans for the sea lions, jungle alarm systems to warn jaguars of approaching danger and fish traps to round up food for the polar bears to eat. Throughout the project, students showed their creativity, collaboration skills, and problem solving strategies. We finished our week by using Flipgrid to share our final projects with our classmates.
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5th grade students in Ms. Mueller’s class have been working on an ELA Stem project that requires each small group to research, compare and contrast, and brainstorm the best type of basket in order to build their own version. Students engaged in collaborative discussions throughout the process to build on each other’s ideas and present their opinions. Each group had to work together to use math strategies including adding and multiplying decimals to budget for materials in order to build their basket. Students then had to use a sequencing graphic organizer to brainstorm their ideas for their persuasive commercial. Students had to write opinion pieces in order to persuade others to purchase their basket by supporting their point with reasons and information. The final product of the project was a persuasive commercial in which students collaborated to film their commercials using Flip grid based on the persuasive writing piece they composed.
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