Sparking Curiosity, Inspiring Minds

For our Grade 3 NGSS unit on Weather and Climate , I have been working hard to make the learning hands-on, inquiry-led and full of opportunities to explore the concepts of patterns and cause and effect. This unit is already a favorite because students get to investigate real-world weather concepts, so adding some engineering design work felt like a natural fit. For the STEAM design challenge I created, students were asked to design a hurricane-proof structure that could with

We recently wrapped up a fun Grade 2 hands-on project for the end of Module 1, The Wide World of Schools . In this unit, students learn about human rights in communities and explore the purpose and importance of access to education. A teacher came to me with a challenge and said, “Mark, how can we redesign this performance task into something more STEM-related and hands-on?” In the new EL curriculum , students usually create paper class crests using pre-designed symbols to re

One of the new Grade 1 literacy units this year is called “Be a Maker”  and it has been a dream connection for integrating STEAM...

As part of the First Lego League robotics program , students take on an Innovation Project  each year, researching a real-world problem...