Today in STEM the students began our storyboards for our stop motion projects. They also worked on their projects as well. A productive day.
Category / 7th-Grade Post
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.
Catapulting into Blueprints
In today’s STEM session, the class was divided into groups and tried to create the perfect small catapults out of marshmallows, uncooked noodles, and a plastic spoon. After that they returned to their project groups to continue working on their houses and blueprints.
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.
Session 4, 7th grade
Today in class we did a light bulb activity with a multimeter, alligator clips, battery holders, D+ Batteries, lightbulbs, and conductors/insulators (wax paper, aluminum, yarn, string, pipe cleaner, and paper) to see which would conduct electricity.