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Our class participated in a school-wide PBL. Each grade selected a continent to research. 2nd grade chose Europe, so my class researched France. Please watch our presentation below.

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Students had to solve equations in order to get their water molecule game piece around the water cycle

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We made a miniature water cycle using hot water, a glass jar, and ice. Students had to document their observations

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Yum! We cooked s'mores in our solar ovens.

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With pizza boxes, foil, plastic wrap, a pencil, and a piece of black paper, students had to create solar ovens.

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Testing our mechanical grabbers by cleaning up the playground

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Testing our mechanical grabbers by cleaning up the playground

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After reading and researching the works of Jane Goodall, students had to engineer an animal hospital that could meet the needs of house pets and wild animals.

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Student groups had to construct a mechanical grabber using these limited materials.

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Students created "magic leprechaun rocks" as a science lesson on chemical reaction. We then created a story about how leprechauns hide thier "gold" (coin) in rocks instead of the end of rainbows. Students read their stories to K and 1st graders. They placed their "rocks" into "leprechaun potion" (vinegar) and watched thier rocks disappear.

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Students writing a story based on 5 sound effects.

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Students had to construct a new stool for Miss Meriwether. In the book "Library Lion" Miss Meriwether falls from her step stool and breaks her arm.

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Our STEM math center this week was based on 2nd grade measurement standards. Students had to build a library complete with children's library, quiet reading area, fiction, non fiction , and a circulation desk. They then had to measure each dimension. I checked to make sure measurements were correct.

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After reading "Library Lion" by Michelle Knudsen, we tested sound. If the sound waves were strong enough, they'd move the rice acrossthe plastic wrap on a metal bowl. The kids LOVED using their outside voices for science.

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After reading "Yertle the Turtle", students had to stack "turtles" (multi colored tops). As they stayed they had to document how tall their tower was before it fell. 

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After reading "Yertle the Turtle", students had to stack "turtles" (multi colored tops). As they stayed they had to document how tall their tower was before it fell. 

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Students had to construct a tower 3 feet tall that can withstand the weight of an apple without falling

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Students had to listen to read alouds of Dr. Seuss's less popular books, then compare them to his well known titles.

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After reading "Bartholomew and the Oobleck", students created their own batch of oobleck and dropped items into the oobleck. Some items would float. Some sunk. 1 item floated for a few seconds then sunk.

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The finale. Can you tell which egg had a brown shell and which egg had a white shell?

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Rinsing the egg after 1 day of vinegar soak.

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The Naked Egg- Making Connections to Segregation and Discrimination

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The Naked Egg- Making Connections to Segregation and Discrimination

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To help students visualize equality, we soaked a brown egg and white egg into vinegar to dissolve the shells. Students wrote a hypothesis, compared/contrasted, and came to the conclusion that even though the eggs looked different outwardly, the were the same inside

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Why is the Statue of Liberty green? We explored this driving question with an experiment on pennies. We grew copper oxide. 

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Why is the Statue of Liberty green? We explored this driving question with an experiment on pennies. We grew copper oxide. 

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Alaska grafitti board. I wrote the word Alaska on a poster and throughout the week students added words around it after research.

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I used the "say and scribe" strategy in this lesson. Students had to work in pairs and construct a Lego heart. 1 student could talk, 1 student could touch the Lego bricks. Neither student could do both, so it was a difficult challenge for the more "assertive" students.

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Students had to measure themselves in comparison to Abraham Lincoln in one of the presidential stem centers.

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Success! Teamwork!

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Washington "Sink or Swim Build a Boat" challenge- using limited materials, students had to construct a boat that would float and hold "passengers" (marbles).

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The adventures of STEAM in Ms. Dawson's class.