https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts en-us 2019-02-01 02:00:45 UTC 2023-12-04 13:31:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330386459 Mrs. Bailey has been doing the STEM Connect unit "Can You Grow a Pizza?" She had individual groups each read a different leveled book about where food comes from (from Reading A-Z) and exemplify the 4Cs by creating a poster about the book. She fully integrated science into her reading time.]]> 2019-02-12 15:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330386459 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330466042 Ms. McDowell started an ecosystem project where students had to create a sketch of grasslands as a group and present it to the class. The best sketch was voted on. At the end of the lesson, her students reflected on their own ability to collaborate in the google form below.

https://goo.gl/forms/Zd8M0NMvsA4FZQ7t1]]> 2019-02-12 17:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330466042 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330557386 Ms. Campbell has been working on growth mindset with her students. She created this mini-posters, which each student has on their desk. She refers to them every time the students are struggling with a task. ]]> 2019-02-12 20:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330557386 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330558096 As Ms. Campbell taught about local government, she had her students "Run for Mayor". Each group had a campaign manager and a video recorded. The posted their campaign on Flipgrid.]]> 2019-02-12 20:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330558096 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330806891 Mrs. Parker had students create paper airplanes and, in pairs, fly their planes and measured how far each went to the closest foot, 1/2 inch and 1/4 inch. Later, she will have them completing addition and subtraction problems with the mixed numbers. During the lesson, she discussed the STEAM career that designs airplanes and allowed the students to create their paper airplanes, test them out, and revise their designs before completing the activity).]]> 2019-02-13 14:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330806891 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330913489 Ms. Runyan taught a lesson on patterns, starting the lesson with the SOS Strategy See-Think-Wonder to make observations about patterns projected on a screen. They then created hearts with a pattern in them (for Valentine's Day), integrating math and art.]]> 2019-02-13 17:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330913489 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330913969 Ms. Runyan created this rubric (inspired by the Buck INstitute creativity rubric) to assess her students' creativity. The students use it to self-assess.]]> 2019-02-13 17:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/330913969 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331039457 Mrs. Parker and I discussed using this self reflection rubric after the students have completed a challenging task and to privately conference with students about their self reflection.]]> 2019-02-13 20:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331039457 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331055574 Ms. White read "Grandfather Tang's Story", and after each page, she had the students grappling with problem solving Tangram outlines that coincided with the story. They experienced productive struggle and practiced helping each other by "hinting." ]]> 2019-02-13 21:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331055574 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331572055 In honor of Valentine's Day, students were doing an open sort of their candy, finding different ways they could categorize it to introduce the classification of plants and animals.]]> 2019-02-15 00:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331572055 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331572482 During class, Ms. Rogers had the students looking at pictures form the dust bowl and the Great Depression. They then wrote very thoughtful and moving 6 word stories about what they observed.]]> 2019-02-15 00:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331572482 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331572536 Ms. Rogers uses these accountable talk sentence stems to support students in collaborating and communicating with each other. She puts them in these table top frames to have them easily accessible.]]> 2019-02-15 00:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331572536 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331798095 This is hanging in the front of Mrs. Veritzen's class. This exemplifies the heart of STEAM. Failing is a necessary and important part of learning!]]> 2019-02-15 16:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331798095 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331855652 Ms. Nobles is doing an American Revolution Battles group project, where groups of 4 are each researching a different battle of the American Revolution. They are building boards on DE Studio to show their learning. Once done, they will create a Google Form with questions about their battle that other students will take. Last, the students showed critical thinking by explaining how life would be different if the other side would have won their battle.]]> 2019-02-15 18:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331855652 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331856854 2019-02-15 18:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331856854 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331875938 Mrs. Vertizen had her students complete the SOS Strategy AEIOU while watching a DE video on The Roaring 20's and Prohibition. While watching the video, she paused it so students can digest newly learning information into the AEIOU chart. She also modified the strategy to include emoji's on the "Emotion" category (which we saw an expansion of creativity).]]> 2019-02-15 19:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/331875938 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336384016 Students listened to the Teacher and the Rockbots - Civil War song to introduce them to learning about the Civil War.  Students were engaged in answering 5 questions about what the noticed and what they wonder about the Civil War from the song and were about the be creative in how they expressed their answers collaboratively. After completing the activity, the students reflected on their teamwork skills on Buck Institute rubrics and used growth mindset to discuss what they excelled in and what skills they still need to work on. (shown in picture below)

https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/e0c1589b-cb3d-4b7f-8b4a-55929712a19e]]> 2019-02-28 13:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336384016 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336426897 Mrs. Robinson had students become architects by designing different rooms in a tiny house. This is part of a larger Tiny House PBL, where they are practicing measurement skills and studying the positive effects of reducing our environmental impact.

]]> 2019-02-28 14:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336426897 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336549475 Students were engaged in guiding their own learning through a Google classroom assignment on an engaging website on interesting animal adaptations. After writing a paragraph about what they learned, they summaraized their learning with AEIOU. ]]> 2019-02-28 18:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336549475 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336897705 Mrs. Russell took two days to teach this lesson. This first day, she had students working in collaborative groups to research an aspect of the Industrial Revolution and create a poster about it. On Day 2, the students filled out a 321 period on other posters, reflecting on the relevance of that one aspect o n the larger picture of the Industrial Revolution.]]> 2019-03-01 15:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336897705 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336971249 Mrs. Thompson had students completing rounding problems and then sharing their thinking on Flip Grid. They were also able to learn from each other by watching each other's videos.]]> 2019-03-01 18:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336971249 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336991681 Ms. Brice read the book "Pinkalicious" and then had students buy different items from the book with base ten blocks in collaborative pairs.  After, she gave them a word problem and they recorded their response to the word problem on a video and posted it on FlipGrid!]]> 2019-03-01 18:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/336991681 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/337505842 Students collaborated to create their own word problem containing fractions with a partner. Then, they typed the word problem on Padlet and had others solve the problem. The word problem was required to contain a real life scenario. After students completed this, the class had a conversation about digital citizenship and how to assess each other's word problems. The students were very insightful!]]> 2019-03-04 15:33:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/337505842 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/337869837 This digital breakout has students multiplying and dividing fractions to escape their bakery. I used it in 5th grade.]]> 2019-03-05 12:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/337869837 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338015082 2019-03-05 17:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338015082 karen_farris https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338018808 We watched a Discovery Ed video on friction, and used the SOS Strategy: Pause and Play. The next day, we we did an experiment with ramps, toy cars, and different surfaces to determine which surface had the most and least friction.]]> 2019-03-05 17:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338018808 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338401258 Ms. Walton had students make observations of what they notice on a map. Then had students discuss water and what it's used for with living things. After that, they were engaged in creating collaborative posters on the uses of water for animals, plants and people. They each wrote a sentence first and then drew a picture.]]> 2019-03-06 14:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338401258 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338402925 Students first made observations about a world map and noticed how much water there was on Earth. Then, they experienced how much of it was drinkable by laying out 100 cups, only one of which had blue-dyed water, representing the clean water. After that, they watched a video on conserving water and created collaborative posters exemplifying how ways to conserve water. ]]> 2019-03-06 14:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338402925 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338502397 After a fractions lesson, Ms. Corzo had students do the SOS Strategy 321 Pyramid, where they wrote 3 facts about fractions, 2 ways to use fractions in the real world, 1 six word sentence/summary related to fractions (They were told it had to be fact based and not an opinion statement).]]> 2019-03-06 17:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338502397 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338520867 Ms. Farris showed a Brain pop video teaching her students about local government and then had her students collaborative practice summarizing with the SOS Strategy That Sums It Up.]]> 2019-03-06 17:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338520867 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338870491 Ms. Runyan first started the lesson by comparing two different student artwork and had the class discuss what made high quality student artwork while completing a whole group SOS PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting).  Then she had students pick their favorite piece of artwork for the year to display for the art show (an authentic audience) and fill out a reflection thinking about what they learned that day and their growth for the year.  I love this reflection because it is very appropriate for 1st grade and focuses on growth and not perfection!]]> 2019-03-07 14:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338870491 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338891036 Ms. Bailey engaged students ina whole class demonstration of the different kinds of seeds they'd be sorting, their plant parts and where they came from. She then had students sorting all of the seeds into different categories. The students then completed a worksheet assessing their knowledge of the different palnt parts.]]> 2019-03-07 15:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338891036 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338933345 The students were brought through an interactive "choose your own adventure" experience for the Great Depression, where they had to make hard choices as someone living in the Great Depression. and had to deal with the unforeseen consequences of their actions. The students were extremely engaged in using their background knowledge of the Great Depression and were asking questions throughout the activity to clarify the circumstances people were living in.]]> 2019-03-07 16:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/338933345 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/339003172 Ms. Campbell had students observing force and motion on the play ground as a beginning of their playground PBL, where they will be designing their own playground.]]> 2019-03-07 18:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/339003172 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342349952 Students are building a recycling bin. To introduce measuring perimeter, Mrs. Parker modeled measuring the perimeter of the recycling bin and then students practiced in pairs measuring the perimeter of tissue boxes. They were given a chance to experiment, fail and, in the end, got to fix their mistakes!]]> 2019-03-18 12:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342349952 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342368117 Civil War: The Reconstruction (Remaking South Carolina)

Questions/Answers around the room and AEIOU]]> 2019-03-18 13:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342368117 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342393959 Mrs. Robinson showed a rap about Reconstruction then had students ask questions and make comments for pictures shown around the room. They were very engaged when it came time to find out what was actually happening in each picture! This was used to introduce the unit.]]> 2019-03-18 13:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342393959 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342435937 Mrs. Kimbrell peaked students' curiosity as she showed them different facts about the Reconstruction Era and then ask questions about them. Then, the students did the SOS Strategy AEIOU to share their thoughts about the Reconstruction Era as the start this unit.]]> 2019-03-18 14:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342435937 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342876616 Ms. Veritzan engaged learners for a review of their Ecosystems unit using the SOS Strategy The Question Is. She would project a word and they would have to create a question whose answer was the projected word. Then, she had students do a gallery walk and add to their question using another color. In the next word, when students did a gallery walk of others' questions, she had them add to someone else's question (emphasizing collaboration). ]]> 2019-03-19 14:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342876616 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342877142 Ms. Morrison had students watch a video on the experience of the different roles on a plantation in the Antebellum South. Then they were assigned a role in pairs and they had to inquire on what that person would see, think, believe, etc. She was careful to emphasize that the students were growing empathy for these people.]]> 2019-03-19 14:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342877142 sherry_kimbrell1 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342880062 STEM Connect: Communities 
Students are learning about habitats and impacts of infrastructure on the environment ]]> 2019-03-19 14:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342880062 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342928000 Students discovered the relationship of types of material and how much light passes through. Then, they discovered the relationship of light and distance by creating their own graphs and measuring the might. They truly became scientists!]]> 2019-03-19 15:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/342928000 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343297647 Ms. McManus was teaching about where animals get their energy from the STEM Connect Energy Unit. Her class discussed the different animals highlighted on the Challenge - Ideas tab and compared and contrasted the animals' respective habitats. Then students were put into groups, where they created collaborative posters predicting what habitat Larry the Bearded Dragon lived in.]]> 2019-03-20 13:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343297647 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343343574 Ms. Sheffield had students using the following four sheets the scaffold the experience for her fifth graders to plan out and execute stop motion videos on a given ecosystem. The following two papers were assessments on the actual video, their knowledge of ecosystems and reflecting on their own performance and process.]]> 2019-03-20 14:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343343574 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343344045 2019-03-20 14:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343344045 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343449249 Mrs. Schwartz had students measuring different objects in their school's garden area and choosing the most relevant measuring tool and explaining why. They then received cards with the sizes of the largest reptiles and they measured the size and drew them with sidewalk chalk.]]> 2019-03-20 17:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343449249 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343787519 Ms. McDowell introduced students to the "plastics problem" using STEM Connect and then had them collaborate on creative solutions to this problem.]]> 2019-03-21 13:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343787519 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343788891 Throughout her histroy units, Ms. McDowell had students collaboratively create large SOS 321 Pyramids on anchor charts, which hand up around her room for reference!]]> 2019-03-21 13:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343788891 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343794875 Students works in pairs to create their own word problems representing a number family. Ms. Bailey will then laminate them and have them in a center for students to practice real world problems involving a missing number.]]> 2019-03-21 14:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/343794875 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/344189109 Students researched important people in history to choose who to name their park after and then created statues of those ]]> 2019-03-22 13:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/344189109 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/344283958 Ms. Walton adds to this as she teaches different lessons and highlights different STEAM careers relevant to her lessons. As you can see, this is constantly being added to and not a one-and-done display.]]> 2019-03-22 16:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/344283958 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345233252 At McDonald Green, teachers post their favorite SOS Strategies using the SOS Strategy PMI (Plus Minus Interesting). Great strategy for spreading the STEAM culture!]]> 2019-03-26 13:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345233252 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345241151 Ms. Foo's class was collaborating with Ms. Parker's 2nd grade class.  Ms. Foo's class created reports about animals and Ms. Parker's class helped Ms. Foo's class read their reports on Flip Grid. Then they all watched each report read as a whole class on the big screen.]]> 2019-03-26 13:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345241151 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345241705 Ms. Turn started her insect lesson by posing 3 Truths and 1 Lie and had students figure out which was the lie while watching a video on insects.  She follow up this  with having students create their own 3 Truths and 1 Lie the next day and post them on Flip Grid! (see picture below)]]> 2019-03-26 13:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345241705 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345243101 Mrs. Corzo and Thorn taught animal adaptations by posing 3 truths and 1 lie to their students and had them watch a video on an arctic fox's adaptations to see which is the lie.  They then had students chose from a collection of books placed in Epic and created their own 3 Truths and 1 Lie]]> 2019-03-26 13:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345243101 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345769590 Ms. Edge first started this underwater geography lesson by showing a CDE video called Undersea Geography.  She then read aloud an adventure that took students under water and had them illustrating it. After that, she introduced their Underwater Project (model is pictured below) where students will be creating models of underwater geography features in groups and problem solving pollution issues in the ocean.]]> 2019-03-27 15:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345769590 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345797392 Ms. White had students measuring their own stuffed animals (brought form home) with both standard and nonstandard units and recording their measurements like scientists.]]> 2019-03-27 16:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/345797392 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346096533 Ms. Turk started her insects unit showing her students a DE video on insects and had them figuring out, out of 4 statements, which was the lie. Then, the next day, they got to make up their own 3 truths a lie about what they learned about insects and share it with each other on Flip Grid!]]> 2019-03-28 12:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346096533 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346107494 Ms. Morrison started the unit on energy by using Stem Connect 
(2-3) Energy unit to have them use the SOS Strategy See Think Wonder by seeing, thinking and wondering about a video on the sun at the beginning of the unit.]]> 2019-03-28 12:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346107494 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346108669 Mrs. Parker is having students experience a real world use of angles by creating different holes in a class-wide mini-golf course!]]> 2019-03-28 12:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346108669 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346110777 At Harrisburg, a new SOS Strategy is highlighted each month for teachers to try.  A description of the strategy is provided as well as copies of the print of the SOS Strategy from the DE site.]]> 2019-03-28 13:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346110777 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346148192 Ms. Veritzan had her entire team do a growth mindset lesson encouraging growth mindset language, which is a foundation for building a STEAM culture.]]> 2019-03-28 14:04:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346148192 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346159478 Students started this unit by doing SOS Visual Walkabout by looking at pictures of animals around the room and writing questions and comments about them.  After, the created a DE board on an animals, including it's inherited behaviors and adaptations.  Here is the rubric:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OTpDux5mfdwz_1MU8pY090esVRBjnQaWIYPiUrqRED8/edit?usp=sharing]]> 2019-03-28 14:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346159478 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346251236 All students have these bookmarks at their desks to scaffold their collaboration skills.]]> 2019-03-28 17:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/346251236 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/347201814 Ms. Corzo and Thorne engaged students in their new unit by showing students 2 facts, 1 clue and 4 pictures about their new topic "animal instincts." After students discussed the new topic, they independently read about their specific animal and wrote down interest facts about its instincts and posted them on a Padlet.]]> 2019-04-01 14:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/347201814 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/347299745 In Ms. Turk's class, students watched a Discovery Ed video introducing them to fish multiple times. While they watched, they completed the SOS Strategy Journals, where they wrote about what they learned on one side of the paper and drew/labelled a picture on the other. They enjoyed being able to watch the video multiple times!]]> 2019-04-01 17:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/347299745 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/347657504 Ms. Vertizan led an incredible lesson where students connected what they were reading about in "A Long Walk to Water" to a real world problem that people in developing countries don't have easy access to clean drinking water. They first read the first half the ReadWorks article "Water Water" explaining the problem and then Ms. Veritzan "scrambled up" (SOS Srambled Please) the rest of the article explaining the solution. Groups had to collaborate to put it in order and then they explained their thinking with SOS 321 Pyramid. They then debrief what parts of collaborating they did well and what parts they are still working on.]]> 2019-04-02 14:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/347657504 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348041175 Ms. Kimbrell's class has been investigating, using STEM Connect Communities Unit (Gr. 2-3), how to build a bike path and have a reduced impact on the salamander community. Today, after some research, they had a debate about the pros and cons of building a bike path. To do this, they used the SOS Strategy Divide and Slide (pictured below).]]> 2019-04-03 13:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348041175 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348570048 Ms. Schwartz had students working with jelly beans to practuice tally marks, create graphs, read about how they're made and even create a new one! Students were very engaged and collaborative with these lessons!]]> 2019-04-04 15:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348570048 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348570408 Ms. Schwartz is teaching growth mindset and having student refer to these mini-posters that are taped tot heir desks. ]]> 2019-04-04 15:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348570408 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348614566 Ms. McManus had students create 3D shapes with Playdo, create real world objects from them and then write sentences about what they created.]]> 2019-04-04 16:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348614566 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348675334 After a lesson, Ms. Schwartz has students reflect on what they learned.]]> 2019-04-04 18:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/348675334 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/349010480 Students are learning about animal adaptations. Today, they experimented with a paper elk ear and documented the sound of a clicker from different distances. Then, after experimenting, they created their own ear.]]> 2019-04-05 17:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/349010480 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/353329142 Ms. Parker has students leading their own learning by watching a DE video on the Civil War and writing down sequential events that caused the Civil War.  They then posted them around the room and took notes on things other students noticed from the video that they didn't.  After, the students recorded their thoughts summarizing the causes of the Civil War on Flip Grid.  ]]> 2019-04-23 12:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/353329142 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/353340996 Ms. White, during reading time, read "The Dot" Ms. White then had students practice their growth mindset while collaboratively building a raft that needed to float. After, they reflected on how well they exemplified the 4Cs.]]> 2019-04-23 13:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/353340996 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354165212 After showing a riveting DE video on plastics called Hawaii and the South Pacific Garbage Patch using SOS AEIOU and Pause and Play, Mrs. Edge had her students get into groups and create a plan to create a Paper Slide on what they learned tomorrow.]]> 2019-04-25 15:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354165212 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354165586 After students shared their knowledge about ocean floors on Flip Grid, Ms. Sheffield engaged students in reviewing the knowledge collaboratively on Quizlet Live.]]> 2019-04-25 15:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354165586 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354180597 To have students practice measuring in feet and inches, Mrs. Thompson had students create paper airplanes, fly then and measure their distance. Then, we showed them a DE video on aerodynamics and had them revise their design and fly them again.]]> 2019-04-25 16:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354180597 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354981247 Students made a practice Flip Grid video sharing 3 Truths and a Lie about themselves to get ready to upload their Paper Slides on the ocean floor.]]> 2019-04-29 12:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/354981247 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/355112276 Mrs. Schwartz had students leading their own learning by using a DE board on Wetlands and having them document their findings in their Habitats Packet. ]]> 2019-04-29 17:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/355112276 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/355115525 Students in Ms. McManus's class were learning to compare lengths by measuring each other with yarn and then practicing comparing using "taller" and "shorter". ]]> 2019-04-29 17:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/355115525 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/376319095 2019-08-22 12:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/376319095 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378248420 Mrs. Parker had students collaborate to build the tallest tower. She required that they be silent, so they stretched their creativity in how to communicate in other ways.]]> 2019-08-29 12:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378248420 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378248947 Ms. McCallum taught her kindergarten students that their brains are going to grow in Kindergarten by watching their "pretend brains" (the pill) grow in the "special Kindergarten water." After, they discussed things they were already good at and other things they arne't good at YET. They then drew a picture of their brains in Kindergarten growing.]]> 2019-08-29 12:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378248947 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378249226 Ms. Walton taught her kindergarten students that their brains are going to grow in Kindergarten by watching their "pretend brains" (the pill) grow in the "special Kindergarten water." After, they discussed things they were already good at and other things they arne't good at YET. They then drew a picture of their brains in Kindergarten growing.]]> 2019-08-29 12:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378249226 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378275837 Ms. Bartlett was building a risk-tolerant community by haven't students own their "imperfections" as what actually makes them perfect. This creates an environment where students feel safe to take risks and make mistakes in a STEAM environment.]]> 2019-08-29 13:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378275837 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378367417 Mrs. Bailey was teaching her studnets about maps by showing them their school from Google Earth and then having them work in collaborative groups to draw a map of their school. Before she taught this lesson, she reviewed what collaboration looks like and sounds like. Great job scaffolding collaboration!]]> 2019-08-29 16:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/378367417 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/384648727 When students came into class today, they noticed the bunny's cage was open and the bunny was missing.  They were told they needed to investigate and figure out what happened to the bunny.  They first discussed the importance observations and using their five senses.  They practiced making observations, they they used their observations to make inferences to solve the mystery of the missing bunny.]]> 2019-09-16 13:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/384648727 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/384649106 Ms. Turk started her lesson by engaging her learners with the SOS Can You Guess My 2-1-4?  While reading the clues and looking at the pictures, her students got very excited about the upcoming topic- Urban Areas!  She then showed a DE video on urban areas.  To follow up, her students showed their learning by drawing a picture of an urban area, including ]]> 2019-09-16 13:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/384649106 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/385016465 Students collaborated and communicated while creatively building structures with place value blocks.  After, they added up the value on their structures.]]> 2019-09-17 00:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/385016465 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/385016552 Ms. Corzo creatively taught order of operations by having students read and perform a reader's theater about the order of operations.  Then she had her students analyze three pretend students' work from the DE site to figure out which students did the order of operations problem correctly and analyze the mistakes of the others.  The student led learning was off the charts!]]> 2019-09-17 00:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/385016552 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/386527554 Ms. Russell worked hard to raised the money within her community to buy the first Lu Wall in South Carolina! What a 21st century way of teaching PE! Check out how these students warm up in her class.]]> 2019-09-19 12:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/386527554 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/386530482 Ms. Walton "STEAMed up" her farm animal unit today by started out her lesson with SOS 3 truths and a lie (modified it for only 2 truths for kindergarten). Then she read the book Farm Animals and discussed the purposes of each animal on the farm. After, students worked in collaborative groups to create a poster each about a different farm animal. And she finished off by watching a Discovery Ed video about a child that lives on a farm and, as each animal was highlighted in the video, she did SOS Pause and Play, and had a student from the group that drew the picture of that animal stand up and share about that animal. Students were excited to be connections about farm animals in this multimodal lesson!]]> 2019-09-19 12:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/386530482 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/387172453 Her students are starting a new unit on immigration and had started it with SOS Visual Walkabout! Her students rotated from poster to poster that had images from the time of immigration in the US and worked in pairs to collaboratively write a comment and a question for each poster. After, they debriefed and reflected on their ability to collaborate and communicate and the relevance in their lives.]]> 2019-09-20 13:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/387172453 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/387174925 Students moved around the room with partners and engaged with each other to read various review questions about matter posted around the room and filled out their "Matter Scoot" sheet.]]> 2019-09-20 13:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/387174925 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/387250935  In Ms. Noble's class, students were super engaged in exploring the solar system with their virtual reality headsets and processed their new thinking with SOS See Think Wonder. ]]> 2019-09-20 15:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/387250935 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394390189 To introduce the new autumn unit, Ms. McCallum had her kindergartners observing different gourds and looking at a fiction and nonfiction book at their tables. They wrote their observations on a stickie and then drew the gourd on the collaborative poster.]]> 2019-10-07 12:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394390189 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394467939 Students started the new unit of Age of Exploration by doing a 4 corners of vocabulary activity where students walk to the corner they belong in to be metacognitive about their previous knowledge of the new unit's vocabulary. Then she had them use different resources to answer the question:  What did people explore?  What was the purpose?  Student were very engaged in leading their own learning! After, she showed a Flocabulary video for Age of Exploration and then had students show their learning with SOS 321 pyramid on paper. IN the middle, she allowed students to get up, share their learning collaboratively with others, and then return to their papers and add to what they already knew. ]]> 2019-10-07 14:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394467939 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394567828 2019-10-07 16:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394567828 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394598094 Ms. Bartlett started her robots and electrical energy unit by showing 2 facts, 1 clue and 4 pictures with SOS Can You Guess My 2-1-4. After students predicted what they thought hey were learning about, they watched a video about how robots are helpful around the house. Then they read books and researched robots and came up with ideas to create their own robot.]]> 2019-10-07 17:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394598094 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394618435 The is the second half of the above lesson.]]> 2019-10-07 17:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/394618435 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395611631 Ms. Corzo created and assigned a Studio board that had a video of what they're learning about in social studies, the Native Americans, using the SOS AEIOU template. All students completely led their own learning during this lesson!]]> 2019-10-09 14:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395611631 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395618838 Ms. Thorne used SOS Eye Spy to have students think about their solar system unit while analyzing a picture at the beach. After, she had students write a small moment piece of writing (what they are learning about in literacy) about being at the piece. This lesson used all of the 4C's skills and was interdisciplinary!]]> 2019-10-09 14:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395618838 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395675059 Ms. Turk had students work in partners use critical thinking to analyze the image above and expressed their observations with SOS See Think Wonder. The students then shared their answers with their partners.]]> 2019-10-09 15:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395675059 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395675827 Ms. Threatt built a lot of excitement when she started her lesson with SOS Strategy Can You Guess My 2-1-4.  Then she had students hypothesize what the quickest method would be to dissolve a bouillon cube. Each group tested a different method, amidst a lot of anticipation and excitement!]]> 2019-10-09 15:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/395675827 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396247423 Mrs. Parker is having her students lead their own learning by creating their own Discovery Ed Studio board about an assigned explorer. The board below was an example, modelling for them how the board should look. To scaffold the experience, she provided a checklist of all of the require components of the board. The students, right from the beginning, were learning a lot about basic typing skills as well as rigorous skills in researching and organizing that information!]]> 2019-10-10 15:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396247423 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396251833 Mrs. Edge had her students use their creativity to invent a new cereal and then write persuasively about why someone should buy their cereal. After, she had them record their cereal on Flip Grid and then they responded to each other's commercials using SOS PMI (plus, minus, interesting). After that, she had the students re-watch their video and reflect on their own communication skills in the commercial using a rubric. Very STEAMy lesson!]]> 2019-10-10 15:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396251833 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396399783 2019-10-10 19:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396399783 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396686431 Ms. Sheffield showed a video from DE on the General Allotment Act and had students watch the video from the perspective of either a Native American or an American settler. Then they discussed with a homogeneous group, what that perspective was using the purple questions below. Then they went into mixed groups and collaborated and communicated about those perspectives to each other, examining the relationship of power and decisions, to answer the question "How is power affecting their decisions and reactions?" and submitted their answers on Google Classroom.]]> 2019-10-11 13:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396686431 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396744899 After learning about apples, Ms. McManus had her kindergarteners do SOS 321 Pyramid, by drawing 3 things that are made out of apples, two ways we use them and 1 way that apples are grown.]]> 2019-10-11 15:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396744899 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396794463 Ms. Schwartz introduced her lesson on arrays, rows and columns by having her students so SOS See Think Wonder, which sparked curiosity and background knowledge. Then, after learning about arrays, rows and columns, they collaborated and communicated by creating SOS 3 Truths and a Lie about what they learned. ]]> 2019-10-11 17:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396794463 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396808456 Students in Ms. McManus's class practiced using their five senses and wrote observations of pumpkins, as they started their pumpkin unit.]]> 2019-10-11 17:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/396808456 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/397934908 Students made a plan and taught a lesson on Flip Grid to teach a place value skill with large numbers. They gathered in homogeneous groups to discuss their topic and progress and were encouraged to revise their work.]]> 2019-10-15 14:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/397934908 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/397967722 Ms. Vertizanb had students owning their own learning by creating Paper Slides to explain how to multiple decimals. They first made a plan and then collaborated to make the slides. They recorded their videos on Flip Grid and then watched each other's and wrote SOS PMI (plus, minus, interesting) for each as feedback.. Then they filled out their own reflection, reflecting on their own ability to make a pan, stick to it, and revise when it's not working.]]> 2019-10-15 15:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/397967722 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398061125 After students learned about the South Carolina low-lands, students read through 4 statements and decided which one wasn't true and why.]]> 2019-10-15 17:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398061125 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398440615 Ms. Thorne kicked off her weather unit by showing a recent major flooding caused by tropical storm Imelda.  Students filled out AEIOU while watching the news clip, but Ms. Thorne modified it so that the "A" was action.  After, she handed out "special" bookmarks to use during reading to remind them to read a weather-themed nonfiction book from their class library during reading.]]> 2019-10-16 13:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398440615 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398493489 In Ms.Corzo's class, students were engaged by estimating how many donuts in a very large donut box displayed as an image on the board. After being told the actual dimensions, students collaborated and communicated to create a model of the donut box using place value blocks, followed by a reflection on their own ability to collaborate!  ]]> 2019-10-16 14:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398493489 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398535886 2019-10-16 15:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398535886 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398570066  In Ms. Turk's class, students practiced using new vocabulary and summarizing by creating 6 word stories about images of thunderstorms. ]]> 2019-10-16 16:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/398570066 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399021450 Ms. Wilson had her students exploring the concept of multiplying by having them use blocks (they chose the type of block they wanted to use) to estimate the product of 35 x 4 and then got to express their answer using the blocks any way they wanted.  They utilized their whiteboard desks to show their work.  After, they recorded their thinking on Flip Grid. ]]> 2019-10-17 13:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399021450 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399071540 Ms. Bartlett had her students building structures made from place value blocks and then they got to count up the value of their structure.  Then, in the end, they got to do SOS Gallery Walk to see others' ideas for building structures and recording their ideas.]]> 2019-10-17 15:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399071540 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399075219 Ms. Rogers read the book "Bolivar" to the students about a dinosaur who lives, unnoticed, in NYC.  Then she asked her students opinion questions about the book using the SOS Strategy 4 Corners to express their opinions.]]> 2019-10-17 15:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399075219 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399133166 Ms. Bailey engaged students by introducing the book "My Father's Dragon" with See Think Wonder.  When she read Chapter 1, she completed SOS AEIOU as a whole class.  Today, when she read Chapter 2, she had students showing their creativity and critical thinking while illustrating  what they heard in the story.  ]]> 2019-10-17 16:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399133166 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399528562 Ms. Walton read the book "Five Little Pumpkins", where the pumpkins fall off the gate because the wind blew.  Then students drew a plan and worked collaboratively to build a gate with only 8 clothespins and 4 popsicle sticks. They then got to do SOS Gallery Walk and see others' designs and go back to their original design and revise it!  To close the lesson, the students reflected on their ability to collaborate and communciate on a kindergarten-appropriate rubric. The students truly experienced collaboration, communication and the Engineering Design Cycle!]]> 2019-10-18 13:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399528562 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399559829 Ms. Loncar engaged her students in the 4C's by first having them share in SOS Conga Line what they already know about bats. Then, they watched a video for a specific information about bats (food, habitat, look like, sleeping habits). After, they were SOS Jigsawed and shared their "expert", knowledge with a mixed group of students and made a collaborative poster with them about their combined information about bats. Her students showed an incredible amount of flexibility, being willing to work with different students throughout the lesson!]]> 2019-10-18 14:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/399559829 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403290054 Mrs. Thompson is teaching her students to memorize their addresses. While doing that, she had them compare their address with others. To support their communication, she displayed accountable talk stems and provided place value blocks to represent the value. Then she had them stand up and make a whole class number line.]]> 2019-10-28 13:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403290054 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403297051 Ms. Brice had students independently learning on See Saw.  First, they listened to the word problem on their See Saw account and then solved the problem by drawing on and recording their explanation on the computer.  The students were able to re-listen to the problem as well as re-do their answer as many times as they needed!]]> 2019-10-28 13:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403297051 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403389350 Ms. Foo engaged her students in learning about pumpkins with a DE video and developed curiosity with SOS See Think Wonder. After, they reviewed their newly information with SOS AEIOU.]]> 2019-10-28 15:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403389350 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403834296 Students in Ms. Parker's class experienced self directed learning, as they worked through a board Ms. Parker created for them to learn about the water cycle. After, they reflected on their own ability to be a self-directed learner on the reflection sheet shown below.]]> 2019-10-29 13:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403834296 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403872727 Students critically thoughts about an image from DE about the invention of the incandescent lamp using SOS Eye Spy.  Then students worked in groups to list all inventions in their home. After that, students were tasked to pick already-invented inventions to stock a house in the woods during the winter and had to write why they chose it.  Then they went back into groups and chose 10 of their items and google searched when it was invented and then put them on a timeline. What an amazing interdisciplinary lesson!]]> 2019-10-29 14:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403872727 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403966044 Students in Ms White's class where given the task of creating their ideal island. First, they created their plan as a group. Then, they were tasked with creating the island out of play-do from their plan. Students worked hard to collaborate on ideas and distributed the tasks to make sure everyone was contributing. After, they presented their completed islands to the class!]]> 2019-10-29 16:00:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/403966044 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404406365 Students led their own learning about bats in kindergarten! They first learned about bats by watching a DE video about bats while listening for a specific piece of information about bats (either their food, what they look like or where they live). Then they went into mixed groups where they shared their specific information with their group and drew a collaborative poster. After, they practiced their communication as they stood up and shared their posters in front of the class.]]> 2019-10-30 13:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404406365 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404449804 Ms.. Loncar had a STEAMtastic lesson, where her students communicated and collaborated wot creatively create a gate ofr the pumpkin to sit on that could withstand the "wind". They did a beautiful job creating an individual plan first and then sharing and compromising on the best solution.]]> 2019-10-30 14:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404449804 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404984064 Students were self directed learners as they worked through a scavenger hunt, looking up different information about weather. They discovered different aspects about weather and even heard about the different parts of a meteorologist's job! They practiced their researching skills and the real world application of looking up the weather for their Halloween activities this evening!]]> 2019-10-31 13:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404984064 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404994108 Ms. Corzo had her students practicing their creativity as they created a monster and then wrote an informative writing story about it. They then practiced their communication and presentation skills while presenting their story to the class. These skills help build the foundation for a STEAM culture!]]> 2019-10-31 13:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/404994108 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406237315 Ms. Veritzan had her students engaged in creatively writing musical parodies about their Social Studies units, based on current pop songs. The students were required to make their own plan on how to create this. Many chose to use the resource of Google Docs for easy sharing!]]> 2019-11-04 14:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406237315 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406246712 Ms. Nobles' students are creating collaborative posters to use for a lesson they're creating on metric conversions to teach to 3rd graders.  They really stretched i their collaborative skills, having to figure out their own group roles and execute the process with very little teacher guidance. After, they reflected on a collaboration reflection!]]> 2019-11-04 14:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406246712 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406429654 After students created salt-dough models of SC's landforms, students compared the lifestyles of "Clay" and "sandy", who came form the Piedmont and Coastal regions.]]> 2019-11-04 18:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406429654 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406839689 Ms. Parker had her students collaborating and communicating about which strategy they most enjoy using to solve multiplication problems using SOS Jigsaw.  After, students wrote persuasive essays about why their strategy is the best.  WHat an amazing interdisciplinary lesson!]]> 2019-11-05 14:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406839689 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406925094 In Ms. Schwartz's class, students were communicating and collaborating to create 3D maps of landforms out of salt dough, from maps they previously drew!

]]> 2019-11-05 15:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406925094 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406983233 In Ms. White's class, students were engaged in self-directed learning as they learned about natural resources from Pebble Go and then showed their learning in a sort. After, they collaborated in making a list of man made and natural resources with a given letter from SOS ABC Summary.]]> 2019-11-05 17:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/406983233 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/407538803 2019-11-06 16:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/407538803 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/407539397 Ms. Corzo has students collaboratively learning by creating a collaborative poster about an assigned severe weather type. On the poster, they had to write 3 characteristics of it, how to stay safe and a fascinating fact.]]> 2019-11-06 16:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/407539397 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408681303 2019-11-08 15:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408681303 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408681894 Students discovered the dynamics of density by observing a Density Tower made of substances with different densities and drawing conclusions from their observations.]]> 2019-11-08 15:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408681894 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408776381 Students observed a real world scenario of the world's largest box of Krispy Kreme box, calculating the dimensions of donuts in the box. The practiced using different strategies to divide and multiply large numbers, communicate about them and teach others using SOS Jigsaw.]]> 2019-11-08 17:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408776381 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408821884 Ms. McManus's students compared their families using pictures of their families (some were hand drawn) and filled out a Venn Diagram with the similarities and differences of each family. This lesson really engaged the students in real world critical thinking about families and the diversity around them!]]> 2019-11-08 18:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/408821884 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/409568003 Students had previously done SOS Jigsaw to share their learning about rocks and minerals. Today, they communicated about their "expert" area of rocks and minerals and collaborated to make groups posters, combining all of their different areas of expertise about rocks and minerals]]> 2019-11-11 17:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/409568003 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/409568214 Ms. Kimbrell assigned different groups to learn about a different aspect of rocks and minerals and pull out the main idea and key details. Tomorrow, they will be informing a mixed group of students about their specialized knowledge to lead their own learning.]]> 2019-11-11 17:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/409568214 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/409610578 In Mr. Knight's class, students were leading their own learning last week and teaching each other with the different clouds and this week with severe weather on a Studio board.]]> 2019-11-11 18:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/409610578 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410025681 Ms. Garland's 2nd graders enjoyed discovering the relationship of mass and the pull of gravity as they collaborated in their discovery and recorded their observations like scientists. After, the students reflected on their ability to communicate and collaborate.]]> 2019-11-12 15:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410025681 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410040983 Students showed their knowledge about nonfiction text features using Goose Chase by taking pictures of the different features and uploading to a common feed. They were able to collaborate and go a their own pace to show their own learning. All students were engaged in creatively showing each feature!]]> 2019-11-12 15:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410040983 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410121007 For math centers, kindergarten students were engaged using See Saw to discover different combinations that make 10, and record their combinations and write math equations independently. ]]> 2019-11-12 17:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410121007 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410629595 Ms. Turk had her students learning independently about pandas on Epic, writing 3 truths and a lie and then recording themselves on Flip Grid reading the 3 truths and the lie. After, Ms. Turk had her students listen to each other's videos and tell the lie. Love how students learned from each other!]]> 2019-11-13 15:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410629595 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410633455 Ms. Corzo has been teaching about working conditions during the Industrial Revolution and why labor unions were created. She engaged the students with a DE video about the tragedy of the Shirtland Triangle Fire. Then, they collaborated in pairs to summarize the impact of harsh working conditions from the video with SOS ABC Summary. After, they shared their summaries with each other around the room, then were able to add to their answers from the new information shared! The ability to edit and alter answers helps build a strong growth mindset culture.]]> 2019-11-13 15:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/410633455 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411157246 2019-11-14 13:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411157246 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411194659 2019-11-14 14:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411194659 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411209775 2019-11-14 14:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411209775 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411344747 2019-11-14 17:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411344747 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411367012 2019-11-14 17:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411367012 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411370097 2019-11-14 17:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411370097 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411923526 Ms. Sheffield had her students tecahing each other about states of matter using SOS Jigsaw.  She used this template to have students share the information that gathered in homogeneous groups.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1keBpyd0SqMhmjEqXBlHNF4ZVOxqyXSi0bHkLPhScaM8/copy]]> 2019-11-15 17:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411923526 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411931238 Ms. Sheffield had her students tecahing each other about states of matter using SOS Jigsaw.  She used this template to have students share the information that gathered in homogeneous groups.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1keBpyd0SqMhmjEqXBlHNF4ZVOxqyXSi0bHkLPhScaM8/copy

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1Nryp7nIFQEhu1_PVkkbRs9BBEwEO3cu1GgjG3pe4jhU/copy]]> 2019-11-15 17:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411931238 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411936547 2019-11-15 17:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/411936547 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412713088 Ms. Rogers engaged students with the book "After the Fall", where Humpty Dumpty deals with the aftermath after he falls off the wall. After, students brainstormed and designed a safe landing for Humpty Dumpty using the STEM Connect unit "Saving Humpty Dumpty" and then reflected on their own creativity. What a great unit!]]> 2019-11-18 14:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412713088 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412717239 After Ms. Bartlett read "The Great Turkey Race", she had students create their own "Turkeybot Race" with Ozobots!  For today's lesson, students were all engaged in teaching themselves how to operate the ozobot, after watching a brief basic tutorial on how to code them.  Even the most hesitant learners were immersed in teaching themselves how to make the little bots go!  Here is the Ozobot lesson in full:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mgp52lRxEzzKguRAZDmm2XwqG0VdzVTLWa-Su1rVqXA/edit#slide=id.p]]> 2019-11-18 14:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412717239 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412931653 Ms. McCallum read "Balloons Over Broadway" and then had her students create a route for a float on Macy's Day Parade. They used a magnet to trace the route, and explored magnetic push and pull while creating their route collaboratively on grid paper.]]> 2019-11-18 18:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412931653 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412932144 Ms. Bailey had her students creating a mystery number game, where they added 3 numbers and covered the answer so other students can solve it and guess the answer before checking themselves!]]> 2019-11-18 18:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/412932144 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413100781 Students practiced making number bonds for the number 7 by  planning  who would sit at different tables, imagining there were 7 guests coming to their house for Thanksgiving.  ]]> 2019-11-19 00:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413100781 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413574693 2019-11-19 18:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413574693 sherry_kimbrell1 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576455 2019-11-19 18:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576455 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576476 2019-11-19 18:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576476 beverly_nobles https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576752 2019-11-19 18:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576752 sherry_kimbrell1 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576873 2019-11-19 18:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413576873 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413577359 Growing Capacity Action Plan]]> 2019-11-19 18:46:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413577359 brittany_robinson1 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413577818 2019-11-19 18:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413577818 donia_turk https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413577868 2019-11-19 18:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413577868 https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413579478 Action Planning - First Follower]]> 2019-11-19 18:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413579478 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413997381 Ms. Parker had her students experienced productive struggle by creating a chart of different cloud types using knowledge from previous lessons. After, they were able to refine their work with a marker using the information from the textbook. They learned a valuable lesson about valuing making mistakes and learning from them!]]> 2019-11-20 14:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/413997381 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/414036682 Ms. Edge had her students leading their own learning by watching a DE video on states of matter and then had her students process the information they learned with SOS XO Let's Go. After, they showed their knowledge on post-its and then collaboratively and kinesthetically discovered how to show the molecules in a solid, liquid and gas.]]> 2019-11-20 15:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/414036682 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/414131444 Ms. White has her students planning a Thanksgiving meal and then reflected on their teamwork ability during that lesson.]]> 2019-11-20 16:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/414131444 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/414149869 Ms. White's students were learning about the Woodlands Tribes from a DE video and then showed their knowledge creatively using SOS Strategy Make It Concrete.]]> 2019-11-20 17:14:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/414149869 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415232958 Students collaborated and communicated to design and build a teepee using only cups.  First, the students discussed with the team to make the design.  Then the students ran laps and got a cup for each lap to build tee-pee.
Then she gave them a chance to re-design their tee pee on paper and then rebuild so it comes together at the top to protect the Native Americans from various aspects (including weather and invaders).  At the end, they reflected on their designs and the subsequent teamwork.  Ms. Russell highlighted that the winning group didn't win because they were smarter, they won because they worked together.]]> 2019-11-22 13:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415232958 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415311746 Ms. Thompson's class was learning about their addresses, so they explored on google Earth to see the view of their home as well as important places, like the school and their favorite park!]]> 2019-11-22 15:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415311746 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415340670 Ms. Brice's first graders used  QR codes and clues to complete a Thanksgiving themed puzzle.  Each time they completed a standards-based task, they received a puzzle piece and a new task to complete.  The skills practiced were silent E, vowel teams, addition (3 numbers, missing addend), snap words. Students were engaged in collaborating to complete their Turkey Breakout!]]> 2019-11-22 16:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415340670 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415424401 In Ms. Foo's class, students did an interdisciplinary STEAM lesson, where students chose Thanksgiving foods from local grocery store pamphlets to put on their "table" and then built the table itself, using the engineering design process!]]> 2019-11-22 18:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/415424401 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/419636617 Ms. Parker had her students leading their own learning s they learned about an asisgned weather instrument on a DE video. They then collaborated the write down the instrument's name, use and picture. After, she used SOS Jigsaw to have the students share their learning with each other on collaborative posters. Ms. Parker finished off her lesson with SOS Gallery Walk.]]> 2019-12-04 14:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/419636617 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/419671955 Ms. Edge introduced her Immigration unit by engaging her students with SOS Visual Walkabout, where they wrote down in different stations theior questions and ocmments about different pictures from their immigration unit. Then they led their own learning on a Studio board by watching an extended DE video on immigration and then filled out AEIOU on the Studio board.]]> 2019-12-04 15:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/419671955 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/419764240 Ms. White did the first part of SOS Jigsaw today, where she had groups of students researching a different Native American tribe. Collaboratively they communicated about the different aspects of the their tribe, including housing, clothing and food. This lesson was 100% student-led learning!]]> 2019-12-04 17:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/419764240 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420178293 Ms. Walton engaged students by having them creatively decorate new "eye spy" binoculars as they observed a picture about reindeer with the SOS Strategy See Think Wonder.]]> 2019-12-05 13:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420178293 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420186126 Ms. Loncar engaged her students during literacy by having her students highlight ending sounds and recording themselves reading on See Saw!]]> 2019-12-05 13:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420186126 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420265095 Ms. Garland had her students exploring the different aspects of matter. They independently went around to different stations that held different objects and documented the different properties of each object. At the end of class, to build trust in her STEAM culture, students gave each other "shout outs", acknowledging the accomplishments of their teammates.]]> 2019-12-05 15:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420265095 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420712801 In Ms. Schwartz's class, students were able to discover different ways to alter different kinds of matter in stations. After, they created collaborative posters sharing their findings from their exploration.]]> 2019-12-06 13:17:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420712801 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420781710 Students have just started learning about prosthetic limbs in Ms. Sheffield's class. Today, they created a timeline of prosthetic limbs throughout history. They practiced resourcefulness in doing research to find out the information needed to create the timeline in shared google slides!]]> 2019-12-06 15:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420781710 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420915732 Ms. McManus's kindergarteners created contraptions that would catch an elf, inspired by the book they read during literacy! They then drew and wrote about the machines!!]]> 2019-12-06 18:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/420915732 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421025559 Students collaborated to both gather the information and create posters bout different Native American tribes. They then shared their information with the whole class as the rest documented their new learnings!]]> 2019-12-06 22:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421025559 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421621844 Ms. Bailey gave students each a gingerbread man and let them take only one bite of the ginger break man. Then they created a class pictograph of which part of the gingerbread man they bit off first. After they finished their gingerbread man, they used SOS See Think Wonder to analyze the graph. Finally, they translated the mathematical information into a tally chart.]]> 2019-12-09 14:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421621844 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421658268 Ms. Rogers is doing the STEM Connect unit "Can You Grow a Pizza?" paired with the SCASL winner "Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries" to jump off the unit. The students connected where food comes from with this twist of the class Jack and the Beanstalk to designing their own garden in the STEM Connect Unit.]]> 2019-12-09 15:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421658268 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421709159 Kindergarteners in Ms. McCallum's room read a book about the gingerbread man and changed the ending! Instead of him getting eaten by a fox, students created a zip line to save him from getting eaten. Students drew a plan first and then experimented to build an effective zip line that got their gingerbread man across the river.]]> 2019-12-09 16:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421709159 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421742037 Ms. Wilson had her students create a packing list for an assigned country from around the world, documenting the weather and climate their for their pretend trip to that country in the month of December. Students also mapped this country on a class-wide map using Tour Builder.]]> 2019-12-09 17:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/421742037 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/422252553 In Ms. Brice’s class, students experienced productive struggle using a pre-coding program called Kodable. Throughout the experience, students learned when to keep trying even if it’s tough an when to ask when they truly needed help.]]> 2019-12-10 16:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/422252553 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/422291834 2019-12-10 17:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/422291834 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/422498051 Ms. Thompson had her students arranging words in correct order a sentence. Then they got to independently show off their learning on See Saw by taking a picture of their word and recording themselves reading the sentence. You should see their face as they hear their own voices!]]> 2019-12-11 00:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/422498051 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/424489142 Ms. Kimbrell had her students practicing the 4C's by collaborating on a breakout and then self-rating themselves on a 4C's rubric! Way to be self-reflective!!]]> 2019-12-16 13:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/424489142 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/424595985  In Ms. Parker's class, students were comparing and contrasting Christmas in Italy and France and shared their knowledge with each other on See Saw! ]]> 2019-12-16 16:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/424595985 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/424995977 Students collaborated, communicated and used their critical thinking to solving different challenges (including finding a hidden code with a blacklight.]]> 2019-12-17 14:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/424995977 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425005756 Ms. Thompson had students practicing sequencing by learning to bake cookies. She first showed them a video on how to bake cookies and then allowed students to re-watch the video as many times as needed on Google Classroom while sequencing the steps. After, students will use those steps to bake the cookies!]]> 2019-12-17 14:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425005756 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425097826 Students collaborated and communicated to build a shelf for their elf, using only tongue depressors and playdo.]]> 2019-12-17 17:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425097826 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425456178 Students spent a bit of time today on the Challenge-Wonder tab, exploring what different bears have in common and differences. They are exploring the concept of inherited vs learned traits.]]> 2019-12-18 14:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425456178 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425887009 Ms. Veritzan is teaching the STEM Connect Unit Gr4-5 Health:  Difference Make All the Difference. Since they built a lot of background knowledge yesterday on inherited traits, today, they shared their knowledge with SOS Paperchat. After, they watched videos posted on Google classroom in different ecosystems and then used creativity and critical thinking to invent an animal that would survive in that ecosystem.]]> 2019-12-19 14:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425887009 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425897266 Ms. Phillips' class designed and competed to build the tallest shelf for the elf!]]> 2019-12-19 14:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425897266 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425924143 Students collaborated and communicated to learn about different holidays happening around the world.  They created a collaborative poster with different aspects of the holiday and then used their critical thinking skills to build a symbol of that holiday.  The Hanukkah group tried to build a dreidel!]]> 2019-12-19 15:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/425924143 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/426218182 Ms. Schwartz cooked a Winter Breakfast for her students, as they wrote about the different states of matter for each food. They continuously wrote their thoughts on stickies and posted them publicly on posters. The lesson was especially growth-minded because they got to revise their thinking as the lesson continued.]]> 2019-12-20 13:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/426218182 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/426254615 Ms. Sheffield played the video about Eric Early (STEM prosthetic career) from STEM Connect and is using SOS Multiple Perspectives, where one group is looking from Erik Early's perspective and the other looking from amputee perspective.  Then she had students communicating their perspective to the other perspective to develop empathy and understanding for both those that have lost a limb and those who create prosthesis.]]> 2019-12-20 14:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/426254615 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/429437035 Ms. Veritzan is building STEM culture in her classroom by having her students reflect on their goals and anticipate obstacles to reaching their goals. This builds relevancy to their learning and strengthens their ability to problem solve.]]> 2020-01-09 13:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/429437035 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/429537029 Ms. Nobles engaged her students while learning about the taxation of the colonies from great Britain by reading real scenarios from the colonies and having her students get taxed "skittles." ]]> 2020-01-09 16:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/429537029 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/429642350 2020-01-09 18:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/429642350 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/433978160 Students in Ms. WIlson's class flipped through her personal recipe books, looking for ingredients to create equivalent fractions of to combine with the same ingredient in a different recipe.]]> 2020-01-21 13:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/433978160 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/434087769 Ms. Rogers read the SC award winning book "Jack and the beanstalk and the french fries" in conjunction with the STEM Connect Unit "Can You Grow a Pizza" to investigate where food comes from and plan a garden. Here are different garden designs students created!]]> 2020-01-21 16:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/434087769 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/441543370 2020-02-06 14:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/441543370 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/441601616 2020-02-06 15:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/441601616 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/441606734 2020-02-06 15:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/441606734 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449471489 Ms. Loncar had students collaborating, communicating and critically thinking as they used a variety of resources to lead their own learning and discover important facts about Black History figures.  After, they shared their information and chose their favorite fact.  to close out, they shared their favorite fact in with SOS Hands Up Stand Up Pair Up!]]> 2020-02-24 14:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449471489 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449521454 Students were independently learning in multimodal centers, where they practiced their knowledge on computers, with blocks in a collaborative game, with whiteboards to show their knowledge and an indepedent knowledge stations. She also did a fabulous job using timed PowerPoint slides to signal clean up and the new rotation. Very smooth transitions and independent learning!]]> 2020-02-24 15:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449521454 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449539314 2020-02-24 15:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449539314 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449590275 Students collaborated in designing and building stethoscopes using the STEM Connect Unit Tool Time in the School Time. Then they wrote a step by step manual, describing thier process for building the stethoscope using 3D shapes.]]> 2020-02-24 16:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449590275 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449630116 Ms. Walton engaged her students in fun and rigorous learning as they used different tools to learn in math centers!  One center, students were adding up dice they rolled and recording their answers in See Saw.  Another center students were creating patterns with colored bears.  An additional center students played a game where they played with place value blocks, trading in 10 ones blocks for a ten rod!]]> 2020-02-24 17:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449630116 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449637783 Ms. Walton created an igloo out of plastic milk jugs that is used as a fun place to read around the room!]]> 2020-02-24 17:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/449637783 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451035845 To spread STEAM culture, the McDonald Green STEAM Team provides some SOS "reading material" for teachers in the bathroom!]]> 2020-02-26 20:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451035845 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036276 Ms. Thorne had her students collaborating and communicating in a open sort where students were able to create their own method of categorizing different animals they had been learning about!]]> 2020-02-26 20:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036276 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036416 Ms. Turk posed a question about their class pet (Taz the bearded dragon): What does Taz need? Her second graders had been learning about wants and needs. She has tasked them with designing a new home for Taz! They first collaborated and communicated with a partner and made a list of all of the things Taz will need in his cage. They then went onto See Saw and completed a digital sort, identifying different pictures as needs and wants.]]> 2020-02-26 20:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036416 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036657 Ms. Threatt had her kindergarten students "become" the bison and "migrate" (to another room) to find food, as she taught them about migration patterns!  What an engaging lesson with such vivid experiential learning!]]> 2020-02-26 20:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036657 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036826 During literacy, students read an article describing the advantages of using bottled water in preparation for their STEM Connect Waste Not, Want Not unit!]]> 2020-02-26 20:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036826 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036939 Then students read another article sharing the "cons" of bottled water and were able to sort out both sides of the "water bottle" argument.]]> 2020-02-26 20:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451036939 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451328859 Students in Ms. Sheffield's class communicated about their nonfiction texts they're reading to write argumentative writing via SOS Paper Chat!  They silently rotated between two papers that had the follow questions written on them.  They not only wrote their own responses to questions but also commented on each others' responses.  When asked what they enjoyed about the activity, some students commented they enjoyed see other students' thoughts and the commonalities between different texts!]]> 2020-02-27 13:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451328859 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451335343 Ms. Sheffield has students "tweet" about different topics throughout the school year. She keeps a Tweet Tweet section in her classroom to help build the STEAM culture and as a reminder of the unique ways her students are able to creatively communicate their ideas!]]> 2020-02-27 13:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451335343 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451400983 Ms. McManus' students are learning about American symbols and today they read a text and watched a DE video on the Liberty Bell! To put the in groups, Ms. McManus gave the different sticks that had different colored numbers and had them independently find the students with the same colored numbers. To show their knowledge, the groups then created collaborative posters with pictures and sentences about the Liberty Bell.]]> 2020-02-27 14:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451400983 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451522398 Ms. White had her students collaborating, communicating and critically thinking as they created a group timeline of their chosen hero from black history and ordered and important event from each of their heroes' lives.  Once the time line was complete, they did an SOS Graffiti Walk, where the group left positive feedback on each time line they visited.  They were very thoughtful about what they wrote to each other!!]]> 2020-02-27 17:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451522398 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451592949 Ms. Schwartz had her students independently create their time line and then attach important events in black history on their created timelines. Then had to really critically think about how to collaborate and create a timeline from scratch!]]> 2020-02-27 18:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/451592949 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/452073866  In Ms. Edge's class, student were working on their stop motion videos of the ecosystems, where they were collaborating and communicating about their movie they created about an assigned ecosystem. The students really made it "their own", as they were given creative license as well as a rubric that created rigor.  ]]> 2020-02-28 16:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/452073866 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/452191982 Students enjoyed learning about vertebrates and invertebrates using SOS Tweet Tweet to summarize their thinking as they learned about different classifications of animals. They especially enjoyed having a sense of humor using hashtags!]]> 2020-02-28 19:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/452191982 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/452992416 Ms. Bailey engaged her students by having them think about what they ate for dinner the previous night,. They then were given an opportunity to communicate and critically think by making a hypothesis of whether their food came from a plant or an animal. The class then placed their hypotheses onto a whole class Venn Diagram. After, they read the STEM Solution Seekers story and started discussing all of the different parts of a pizza and where they came from. The class was able to conclude that a pizza come from both plants and aminals!]]> 2020-03-02 15:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/452992416 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453063112 Kindergarteners in Ms. McCallum's class were engaged in measuring after they read Dr. Suess's book, "The Foot Book" and measured pieces of tape around the room with their feet. They were able to problem solve what to do when there's "just a little extra" than their feet, as well as, be self-paced and have voice and choice in the order they went in!]]> 2020-03-02 16:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453063112 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453167358 Ms. Bartlett engaged her students with an interdisciplinary reading passage, describing the human impact on the Earth.  Student practices pulling out words an ideas they didn't know.  They collaborated to discuss some ideas on ways to have less impact on the Earth. ]]> 2020-03-02 18:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453167358 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453393700 2020-03-03 02:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453393700 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453675137 Ms. Corzo ]]> 2020-03-03 15:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453675137 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453697798 Ms. Turk had students start designing a new home for Larry the Bearded Dragon with her interdisciplinary lesson, which started with a whole group reading of the STEM Solutions Seekers Story and ended with students creating a list of needs and wants that they will need to take into account when creating Larry's home.]]> 2020-03-03 15:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453697798 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453729658 To engage students immediately in the modified STEM Connect Unit Can You Grow a Pizza, Ms. Threatt played her 5th graders the song "Dirt Made My Lunch."  She then had them create a pizza wheel (pictured below).]]> 2020-03-03 16:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453729658 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453803160 Students in Ms. Thorne's class practiced being self-directed learners after they learned about the tardigrade- the world's toughest animal by learning about SOS AEIOU using the student SOS Strategy video on DE to share their thoughts.]]> 2020-03-03 17:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453803160 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453803338 2020-03-03 17:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/453803338 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454339648 2020-03-04 14:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454339648 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454341274 Ms. Veritzan had students investigating about the real world plastic problem using the multimodal resources on STEM Connect Waste Not Want Not and then summarized their initial learning by communicating and collaborating with SOS Whittle It Down.]]> 2020-03-04 14:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454341274 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454553631 Students investigated the 4th grade standard about pitch and volume in groups by designing and creating an instrument from objects such as cups, rubber bands and spoons. ]]> 2020-03-04 18:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454553631 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454555331 Ms. Phillips tasked her students with creating building "models" out of marshmellows and toothpicks to be able to withstand an "earthquake" (place on jello).]]> 2020-03-04 18:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454555331 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454679259 Ms. Phillips had her students working in pairs to independently learn about forest fires using a Google Slides presentation with multimodal resources shared via Google Classroom.  They collaborated and communicated to fill out the investigation form.]]> 2020-03-04 21:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/454679259 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455028306 Ms. White engaged her students while reading Frog and Toad by having them turn and talk and share what the SEE in the picture, what they THINK is happening and what they WONDER about the picture. Students practiced separating their observations form the inferences!]]> 2020-03-05 13:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455028306 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455245608 Ms. Sheffield helped develop empathy for children impacted by child labor by first having students listen to accounts about child labor and they were asked to identify whether each account was happening now or long ago. Then they Table Top Texted about their reactions to hearing the details of these child labor accounts.]]> 2020-03-05 17:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455245608 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455246871 Ms. Schwartz had students "become poets" by creating 6 Word Stories about the deciduous forest. After, student communicated and collaborated looking at a DE image of a salamander to summarize key words to describe it using SOS Whittle It Down.]]> 2020-03-05 17:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455246871 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455799556 Students were engaged in Ms. Thompson's class to practice reading questions and writing in complete sentences with Snowball Fight!  After crumpling up and tossing a pre-written question across the room, students eagerly picked up a piece of paper, read the questions and answered it.  Once finished, they tossed the "ball" across the room again and answered a different question.  They were so excited to get a new question!]]> 2020-03-06 15:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455799556 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455799829 Students will be practicing their communication and collaboration skills with a modified Table Top Texting, where they will choose a pre-written question from a card, ask their partner that question and the partner will answer that question by "texting" the answer!]]> 2020-03-06 15:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455799829 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455800198 Ms. Russell had students critically thinking about creative strategies, as students were grouped either as a Lorax or a Oncler. The Onclers' job was simple: chop down as many trees as possible (knocking down cones). The Lorax's job was to plan t trees (put the cones right side up). Students were completely engaged in this challenge!]]> 2020-03-06 15:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/LancasterSTEAMLCArtifacts/wish/455800198