Today in STEM our class did a math preparation test and we started working on our stop motion movies, setting up scenes and taking pictures.
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Stop Motion and Projects ( 7th grade )
Today in STEM the students began our storyboards for our stop motion projects. They also worked on their projects as well. A productive day.
Project Work and Slides
Today in STEM, the class continued working on their houses and slides for the final project, a lot of progress was made with the groups and they should be completed soon.
Project Day and Special Guests
In today’s STEM class, everyone got in their project groups, and continued working on their houses and spreadsheets. Towards the end of the day, 3 construction managers gave a lecture on their jobs and what it is like to be a construction manager, the class asked interesting questions. It was really an awesome moment.
The Plant ( Field Trip )
In today’s STEM session the kids went to “The Plant”, an abandoned meat facility turned into a nonprofit building focused on vertical inside farms and shops. During our visit we explored the different floors of the building, seeing old smoke chambers that have been transformed into bathrooms and coming across a indoor pond with turtle. At the end of exploring the building, we returned to the classroom and made our own indoor vertical farm with a filtration system, a cool experience.
Session 7, 7th grade
Today in STEM we were groups of four to create a boat out of aluminum. Two were created from each group, one being a test boat and the other one being the final boat. In the testing pool, the groups figured out how many marbles their boat could take before sinking, one group even managed to hold 200 marbles.
Session 6, 7th grade
Today in class we learned about wind power and the orgin of wind, we created a paper cup windmill and tested it with a fan and talked about the data of our light bulb experiment from the last session learning about amps, and dependent variables.
Session 5, 7th grade
Today in STEM, 7th grade had a field trip at the archeticure center, learning about tension and compression. Then we walked around downtown observing the building’s structure and what it would be made of. Then we went back and watch a mini movie on how Chicago has changed, design wise.
Session 2, 7th grade
In class today we made a circuit online on a computer and learned what it takes to make a hamburger from the beginning.
Session 3, 7th grade
What happened in class today was a cool activity of stacking cups using a rubber band that had string attached to the sides (where the students used to control the cup). Those pictures up top are the results.