First week of STEM - Fall 2016

Summer has come and gone and school is officially back in session.  What a great first week it was in STEM class!  We did the usual first day activities of rules and procedures as well as getting to know each other.  The rest of the week we set up our engineering design journals in our google class.  This is where we will keep notes on our modules to use through the rotations.  We spend time working with the word wall words.  We started with three science words: observe, experiment, and test.  We used an LDC minitask to see what we already knew about the words.  In the pictures below you can see the students brainstorming and jotting down their thoughts.  We are all very excited to get started in our LMS Paxton Patterson.  The second week of school will be spent doing an orientation.  The students are very ready to be working in their stations!

Semester 2 - Rotation 1

The start of the new semester brings new students to the STEM Lab.  The students have completed orientation and are in the beginning of rotation 1.  Here are some of the students exploring their first modules.