[aisle] Favorite STEAMs?

Sullivan, Kathy ksullivan at princeville326.org
Thu Jan 9 15:07:29 CST 2020


Thanks, Janet!
:) Kathy

*Kathy Sullivan*
*Princeville Junior Senior High School*
*P.C.U.S.D. #326*
*302 Cordis Avenue, **Princeville, IL  61559*
*309.385-4660  x1574*
*ksullivan at princeville326.org <ksullivan at princeville326.org> *

*"Literature is the safest key to a nation's treasure." *- Chaim Nachman
Bialik



On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 2:56 PM Janet Jenkins via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Our high school students enjoyed having a flight simulator. A former
> student who works at an aeronautical design/manufacturing business brought
> in the software and his gear -- multiple computer flat screens, foot
> pedals, cockpit "sticks," etc.  Although the software allowed the students
> to take off and land anywhere in the world with any kind of airplane, he
> set it to local area maps so the kids could see their farms and the Wabash
> River. He could program emergencies like a cockpit fire and rain during
> landing. One student at a time was allowed to be pilot and while the
> "passengers" listened to instructions until it was their turn to "fly."
>
> This year, our local police department is going to demo their special
> drone which has a feature for finding human heat signals for injured
> hunters, dementia patients, lost children, etc.
> We are also hoping to get a local archery team to talk about and
> demonstrate the physics of recurve, compound, and crossbows. (One of my
> students on the library staff is a competitive archer.)
>
> Simpler things we've done:
> *Composer Days:* Played classical music during the passing period
> (because music is very mathematical!) and highlighted facts about the
> composer each day on sandwich boards in the hallways: Bach, John Williams,
> Aaron Copeland, Glenn Miller, and John Phillip Sousa. We'll pick new ones
> this year.
> *Strings and Friends Day: *We invited students to bring their guitars,
> ukeleles, basses, and other stringed instruments and had a mini-jam
> session. Our superintendent brought his 12-string guitar and our head
> custodian played a fine banjo. Some students gave ukelele lessons.
> *20 Minute Masterpieces: *With only a mixed-up crate of old crayons and a
> white piece of paper, students had to recreate a masterpiece of a famous
> artist. We posted the results on the library windows and made our library
> ceiling into an art gallery. See attachment.
> *DaVinci Bridge: *It is a bridge without fasteners (check Youtube). After
> completing a popsicle bridge, they were given lumber to build a human size
> one.
> And a shout-out to Jacob Roskovensky who shared his #STEAM activities with
> me. We started two years ago with his *100 Cup Challenge* -- build the
> tallest structure you can with 100 Solo cups WITHOUT using your hands!
> With the exception of the flight simulator which was an all-day event,
> these activities were done in the library or the adjacent courtyard during
> our 30 minute homeroom time during the month of March.
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:35 PM Sullivan, Kathy via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> We've hosted optional "Design-It Days" two to three times per year, which
>> are STEM/STEAM activities with a different name.
>> I just wrote a grant to purchase items that would enable us to host these
>> days monthly, as our district is adopting the project-bases Defined STEM
>> platform to augment our curriculum.
>> *My question:** What's your favorite STEM / STEAM activity? *
>> We serve grades 6-12, but we can probably adapt ideas that target younger
>> grades too.
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>> :) Kathy
>>
>> *Kathy Sullivan*
>> *Princeville Junior Senior High School*
>> *P.C.U.S.D. #326*
>> *302 Cordis Avenue, **Princeville, IL  61559*
>> *309.385-4660  x1574*
>> *ksullivan at princeville326.org <ksullivan at princeville326.org> *
>>
>> *"Literature is the safest key to a nation's treasure." *- Chaim Nachman
>> Bialik
>>
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