Resources for Week of March 30, 2020

These are some resources if you are looking for ideas to stay engaged during this extended break.

Set is one of my favorite brain games. Is a group of 3 cards a set or not? You figure it out by deciding if every attribute is going to be the same or different; example, all purple shapes, all ovals, all shaded in, and different number of ovals. You can play the daily challenge here (look for the directions on the right side of the puzzle if you are new).

Noetic Learning Problem of the Week is available here. Each week there is a new problem posted.

Think Make Innovate is the Grant Wood AEA Digital Learning Team's monthly maker challenge. You can see all kinds of past challenges as well as the new episode will be released on Wednesday, April 1st (no fooling!).

5th Grade STEAM Museum

Cardboard creations. Clay sculptures. Lego structures. Posters. 3D models. Clothing redesign. Video creation.

Authentic Audience

Students love the creation part of their time in the STEAM Lab. But what happens to those creations once the class is over? The question I focused on for this STEAM project was "How do we share student's creative work in the real world?" 

I challenged the 5th grade students to create a STEAM Museum to display their creations for families to view before the music concert. This way students could take some time to create something they are proud of and share it with people they care about.

 

 

I wish you could see the thought and planning that went into these projects! 

• How students worked to mix paints to get a desired color for their painting...
• and students brainstormed how to make look like corn stocks in the field of that farm scene...
• and a student figured out a way to use wire inside clay to stabilize their sculpture...
• and how to attach all the pieces of the cat sculpture.

And I was honored to watch students show off their creations to parents - to see their pride!