My Classroom

We've begun the 2015-16 school year by implementing a new elective entitled Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) class.  Our 6-8th grade students have the opportunity to participate in two trimesters of STEM class, which is connected to our new, collaborative learning space. We have adopted our STEM program from Creative Learning Systems (CLS). CLS has provided our school with software and hardware to make the learning of our students more hands-on and practical for the real-world setting. In our STEM Lab environment, the students work collaboratively and concentrate on the following:

• Problem-solving
• Reflection
• Presentation
• Collaboration
• Productivity 

Below are the engagement (or project) options our students have access to. Each pair of students work for a 10-day period to produce something and then, once the 10-day period is over, they begin a new project. 

To hold our students accountable for every engagement, each pair of students participates in daily reflections, conducts a specific, measurable, attainable, relevant & timely or SMART Goal, learns new vocabulary, relates engagement to a STEM career by using www.ionfuture.org and assessing themselves using our five components stated above. This is all done within Google Slides and is shared with the facilitator for monitoring and grading. See below for an example outline of the presentation. 

Lastly, enjoy some images of my students hard at work during their first two weeks of STEM class.