[aisle] Favorite STEAMs?

Thu Jan 9 15:15:55 CST 2020

Dear Jana,
    I think your e-mail got attached to the wrong thread.
:) 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 3:12 PM jana bayne via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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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