https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm place to drop PDFs, videos, URLs, etc en-us 2020-06-15 21:29:07 UTC 2025-10-05 13:28:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2697.png aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628002360 -review attaching tools, fasteners, glue, tape
-review cutting tools
-tie in with humanities literature; incorporate multicultural fairy tales into this! 
-reinforce engineering design process and how to work in response to a design challenge
-get to know engineering materials & cart at the start of the year ]]> 2020-06-15 21:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628002360 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628002801
The Solids and Liquids Module provides experiences that heighten primary students' awareness, curiosity, and understanding of the physical world and provides opportunities for young students to engage in scientific and engineering practices. Matter with which we interact exists in three fundamental states: solid, liquid, and gas. In this module, students will:

• Investigate and sort objects based on their properties.
• Observe, describe, and compare the properties and behaviors of solids and liquids. Record observations with pictures, numbers, and words.
• Recognize the properties of solid materials that make them appropriate for tower construction; build towers.
• Combine and separate solid materials of diff erent particle sizes using tools.
• Observe, describe, and record what happens when solids and water are mixed and when liquids and water are mixed.
• Use knowledge to conduct an investigation on an unknown material (toothpaste).
• Use knowledge to conduct an investigation on an unknown material (toothpaste).

]]> 2020-06-15 21:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628002801 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628003000 -sewing; velcro; different fasteners
-Miss Alaneius vocabulary parade PBL Unit]]> 2020-06-15 21:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628003000 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628005262
The Insects and Plants Module provides experiences that heighten students' awareness of the living world. They come to know firsthand the life cycles of a number of insects. Students see the life cycles of insects unfold in real time and compare the stages exhibited by each species. At the same time, students grow one type of plant from seed and observe it through its life cycle to produce new seeds. In this module, students will

• Provide for the needs of living insects and growing.
• Observe beetles, moths, and butterflies change from larvae to pupae to adult. Observe insect mating and egg laying.
• Compare structures on milkweed bugs to other kinds of insects.
• Observe incomplete and complete metamorphosis.
• Compare plant and animal life cycles.
• Make predictions about the moth and butterfly life cycles, based on observations of other insects.
• Communicate observations of the life cycle of plants and the structure, behavior, and life cycle of insects in words and drawings.

]]> 2020-06-15 21:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628005262 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628006097 -rollercoaster design
-calder mobiles
-review pushes/pulls since this group missed some in K/1
We live in a dynamic world where everything is in motion, or so it seems. But not everything is moving the same way. Some things move from one place to another. Other things rotate around and around. Still other things are stationary, stable for a time, balanced on a thin line between stop and go. Other objects move back and forth or vibrate. These are the global phenomena that students experience in the Balance and Motion Module. In this module, students will:

• Create and use representational models to demonstrate stable balanced systems.
• Construct and evaluate toys that demonstrate spinning, and explain how they operate.
• Design runways to control or change the motion of marbles.
• Communicate observations and compare stability an motion, using precise vocabulary.
• Plan and carry out investigations with sound and with magnetic force.
• Analyze and interpret observational data.

]]> 2020-06-15 21:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628006097 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628008106 -apply what you learned about balance and motion to create your own game or toy
-pull on Games Galore! Padlet from DL, like balance toy, as well as RAFT kit around wheels'axles
-study simple machine wheels & axles so not all simple machines are introduced in 3rd/4th]]> 2020-06-15 21:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628008106 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628011164 -builds off toy design culminating project for balance/motion
-lego mini unit
-improve play dough process mini unit 
-loop in before/during/after properties of materials unit SB will do ]]> 2020-06-15 21:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628011164 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628012600 -lego mini unit of study (look at stable structures, maybe some bridge building, fun designs, how to overlay bricks to make it stronger); lego car crash test project - 3 weeks
-look at how legos are made (plastic focus) and look at the system of production; that can illustrate how systems have parts as well]]> 2020-06-15 21:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628012600 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628013389 -great to. follow properties of materials with SB
-intro to chemical engineering
-Child’s play. If you’ve ever followed a recipe, you know that the amount of each ingredient and the order in which you mix them matters. Chemical engineers use these same principles when designing processes. When students read the storybook Michelle’s MVP Award, they learn about a girl who designs a better way to make play dough. The activities in this unit reinforce the science concepts “solid” and “liquid” as students explore the properties of different materials—and the properties of mixtures of materials. The final engineering design challenge? Think like a chemical engineer and design a process for making high-quality play dough.]]> 2020-06-15 21:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628013389 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628015464 -create a school mural using mosaic art form
-culminating project to big unit on how small parts make up complex systems
-great way to incorporate community values, heroes, elevate other stories
-perhaps can be installed out near garden? if mural not possible, students could make smaller tiles to keep

]]> 2020-06-15 21:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628015464 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628018786 How can you design a mixture for a certain purpose? For centuries, humans have undertaken this challenge. From the creation of medicines, paints, and building materials, to the development of cleaning products, adhesives, and foods, mixtures have proven to be essential to life as we know it. By mixing ingredients together, it’s possible to create a mixture that takes on some of the properties of its ingredients. In this unit, students take on the role of glue engineers and use engineering design practices to create a glue for use at their school, which serves as the design problem for the unit. They conduct hands-on investigations to observe properties of a variety of possible glue ingredients and learn how certain materials respond to heating and cooling;]]> 2020-06-15 21:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628018786 aradeva1 https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628024054 The anchor phenomenon for the Structures of Life Module is the diversity of plants and animals we observe in our world. Students experience that organisms exhibit a variety of strategies for life, have a variety of observable structures and behaviors, have varied but predictable life cycles, and reproduce their own kind by passing inherited characteristics to offspring. Students explore how individual organisms have variations in their traits that may provide an advantage in surviving in a particular environment, and how our knowledge of animals that survived in past environments is inferred by studying fossil characteristics. The driving questions for the module are where do organisms come from, how do they survive, and how are all the different kinds of plants and animals able to continue to exist on Earth?]]> 2020-06-15 21:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aradeva1/2ndSTEMssm/wish/628024054