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Francis A. Desmares Egg Drop Competition STEM Day - April 5, 2024

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K-5 Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour and Kahoot!

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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Use the STEM lab for any activity you desire. No Mrs. Attiyah included :)

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In this exploration, students design, evaluate, test, and suggest improvements for a container that will protect their precious payload: an egg. The Classic “Egg-Drop” experiment has been a standard in science instruction for many years. Essentially, students are asked to construct some type of cont…

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Dropping an EGG from SPACE! Will it survive?

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Perseverance Lands on Mars, as the World Watches

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submit Your Questions!

Have you ever wanted to ask an astronaut about space? What does an engineer really do? Click the image to submit your burning questions for a chance to be asked live during our weekly Space Club Career Chats!

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Have you ever wanted to ask an astronaut about space? What does an engineer really do? Click the image to submit your burning questions for a chance to be asked live during our weekly Space Club Career Chats!

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2 Recipes for Giant Bubbles That Don’t Pop

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If you’re tired of bubbles that pop as soon as you blow them, try this recipe for unbreakable bubbles.

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A FREE one page weekly "newspaper" to help inspire kids to engage with STEM in the real world. Each issue can be printed or shared digitally with the kids you know. Literacy & STEM...better together!

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Colorful Medal Lines Public Service Day Social Media Graphic (Real Estate Flyer)

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May 5, 2020 | By: Sara Paden

Objective: You will learn about printmaking and how to print using recycled materials such as cardboard, paper towel rollers, caps and bubble wrap!

Materials & Supplies:

Rectangle or square piece of Cardboard for the master printing plate

Cardboard (boxes, cereal box, pizza box, etc)

Corrugated cardboard

Paper towel or toilet paper rolls

Bottle Caps

Foam or Bubble wrap

Art Supplies Needed:

Art Vocabulary: Printmaking, Texture rubbing, Stamping, Collagraph, Printing plate or master plate, Collage, Vertical & horizontal lines

Introduction:Did you know that each week New Yorkers throw away about 15 pounds of trash. Yet, most of what we toss isn't garbage at all. For instance, all kinds of paper and cardboard can be made into new products. Today's cereal box can be tomorrow's pizza box! So, recycle what you can! I am going to introduce you to printmaking using recycled materials! We are going to learn about three different ways that you can do right at home.

Lesson: Lesson Printmakingis a process where an artist creates a master plate from which multiple images are created. The master plate can be a lot of surfaces including styrofoam, metal, cardboard, wood or any one of a number of materials. Then the artist prepares the printing plate by cutting, gluing pieces on top of the surface or carving an image onto the plate. Ink or paint is applied and paper is pressed onto the plate either by hand. The finished print, you will slowly take the paper off the printmaking plate which is called pulling a print.

Stamping: Stamping is a simple printing process of creating a mark.

1. Collect your materials and prepare your workspace. Go through your recycling bin and find interesting objects that will create an interesting mark. You can cut cardboard into different lengths to create a variety of lines. You could fold or cut a paper towel roll to create a new shape.

2. Place paint on to a tray or paper plate and press your piece of cardboard or paper towel roll into it.

3. Gently press your cardboard or paper towel roll on your piece of paper. The shape or line should appear!

4. Continue to stamp your piece of paper until your marks start to fade.

5. Add more paint to create a bolder print. Let the paint dry.

Stamping Ideas:

Create abstract artwork using different types and overlap them to create a sense of depth. You can layer them to turn your paper to create some interesting designs.

Create Piet Mondrian inspired artwork using black vertical and horizontal lines inter-crossing each other. After the paint dries, you can color in the rectangles and squares just using the primary colors (red, blue & yellow)

You could pretend you are an architect and design a building! Use pieces of cardboard to stamp out your dream house, castle or city street block.

You could use paper towel rolls and bottle caps to create a circle shape. After the place has dried, you can use paint or crayons to color in all the different circles.

Collagraph: Collagraph is a method of printmaking using a surface such as a piece of cardboard and gluing materials onto it to create interesting designs and textures.

1. Cut a piece of cardboard into a rectangle or square to make the printing plate. 5 x 7 inches would be a size to start!

2. Collect recycled materials. You can collage found materials such as pieces of cardboard cut out into shapes, fabric, foam, bubble wrap or paper.

3. Assemble your printing plate by gluing down your materials. If you are cutting out shapes or an image, make sure it is simple and draw it on the cardboard before cutting it out.

4. Let your printing plate fully dry.

5. Add paint onto your printing plate with a paint brush or roller.

6. Place your printing plate onto your piece of paper.

7. Use your hands to press or rub the back of the printing plate to make sure that all the surface has been pressed into your paper.

8. Pull your print! Take your printing place off your paper!

9. Let the paint dry and create another one! Printmaking isn't perfect! So, if you see that some of your design is not showing up, add more paint next time or if your design got lost in the paint, don't add so much paint!

Collagraph Ideas:

Abstract design. Cut out different shapes out of colored paper and glue them down to a white piece of paper. Overlap pieces or turn pieces to an angle to create an interesting composition. Use different textured materials such as bubble wrap or corrugated cardboard. to glue down to your printing plate. Add black paint to your printing plate to create a contrast to your colored pieces of paper.

Cut out an animal, insect or a flower out of a piece of cardboard. Make sure it is simple, you can always add details later! Print your design multiple times and overlap them.You can create a school of fish!

Texture Rubbing: Texture Rubbing made when you place a piece of paper on top of a surface and use a crayon or oil pastel to record the texture.

1. Cut a piece of cardboard into a rectangle or square.

2. Collect recycled materials and cut out different shapes to create an image or design. You could reuse your collagraph printing plate!

3. Glue down your shapes and let it dry.

4. Place a piece of thin paper on top of your design.

5. Use a crayon or oil pastel on its side and color your piece of paper.

Texture Rubbing Ideas:

Rubbings are a great way to record or copy textures around your house! Look around to find some interesting textures, maybe your tiles in your bathroom or a woven basket.

Create a rubbing using nature! Find leaves, bark or flowers.

Reflection: Reflection is an essential part of the art making process and your creative choices. Ask yourself or have a conversation with your children about the art you have created!

How does your print come out? Did the print look like you thought it would?

What did you like or dislike about your art?

What would you do differently? What would change in your artwork?

Why did you choose to do that shape or design? What does it remind you of?

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Classroom Series: Make Art from Recyclables - Sanitation Foundation

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Join us for our first installment of DSNY Classroom series with "Making Art with Recyclables" with Ms. Sara. (K-12)

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Here are a few options for observing the eclipse!

If you don't have eclipse glasses, have your students follow our step-by-step activity to construct a pinhole projector. Click the arrow on the right to begin this activity.

If you have eclipse glasses, discuss safety procedures before distributing the glasses and observing the eclipse.

If it's cloudy or you are unable to go outside, you can watch a live stream of the eclipse, courtesy of NASA. The livestream will run from 1 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time on April 8, 2024.

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Why does it get dark during a solar eclipse?

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In the mini-lesson, students reflect on how shadows are made when light is blocked and connect this to the really BIG shadow the Moon makes during a total solar eclipse. In the activity, students work with a partner to create a solar eclipse viewer out of paper.