Learning and Teaching
STEM
This week, we were able to complete the Year 3/4 portable Gaga Pit design that the students worked on last term in STEM. Now we have two Gaga Pits for the students to use and are a product of the application in our Year 3 to 6 students.
All students from Year 3 to 6 used an engineering design process to help guide our thinking. It involved 7 steps: Ask, Imagine, Plan and Design, Create, Test, Improve and Reflect. This whole process is cyclic.
The students now have a greater understanding of what is required to take an idea and transform it into the finished product. Lots of great learning opportunities occurred across the term.
Below are some examples of what we did at the various stages of the design process.
3/4M Using our SPERO's in STEM
Green Team News
The Green Team has been exploring different ways we can grow plants. Only two weeks ago, we had fun potting up the Rosemary cuttings we had started by growing roots in jars of water. We were very pleased to see that only one cutting we potted up didn’t survive.
It has been very rewarding to hear the students ask questions about what other plants we could grow from cuttings. Maddi Scott in Year 4, asked if it would be possible to grow lavender from cuttings. Thanks Maddi for posing this question as it provided us with our next challenge.
With the help of Nanna Maureen, we took more than 100 cuttings from our school lavender bush. Each member of the Green Team then prepared three cuttings; one was placed in a jar of water, another was planted in a small pot containing potting mix and the final cutting was placed in a Jiffy peat pellet.
Fingers crossed all our cuttings survive. Stay tuned to see the results.
Celebrating St Brendan's Day
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