[aisle] Favorite STEAMs?

[jana bayne]

That works for me. What kind of prizes do you want to give out? How many
rounds do you want me to put together?

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:05 PM Sullivan, Kathy via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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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>>
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