STEM News

Dear fellow scientists,

Prep students are learning to cut fruit and vegetables—such as tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, and bananas—to make a healthy snack for a friend as part of their design project. They are also learning the importance of kitchen safety and remembering to wash their hands before preparing and eating food. Watch this video on healthy eating: https://www.getepic.com/app/read/80459 

Grade 1 students are working in groups to begin their farm diorama models, following the design process. They can choose from four types of farms: dairy, apple orchard, cotton plantation, or sheep farm. Watch this video on how to make a diorama at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ZrwtlJHmw 

Grade 2 students are making instruments that produce different sounds. They are using containers of various shapes and sizes, along with rubber bands, to create their amazing musical inventions. Watch this video on musical instrument hacks | LIFE HACKS FOR KIDS: https://www.getepic.com/app/read/64165 

Grade 3 students are learning to identify and spell key vocabulary from the chemical science unit we are studying this term. As a class, they wrote down keywords from a Kahoot quiz, spelled them correctly, created word searches using those keywords, and then completed a word search made by a classmate.

Grade 4 students are learning to identify where food and fibre are grown in Australia. They took notes from a slideshow onto a map of Australia, used those notes to match pictures of industries to the correct facts, and glued their worksheet into their STEM books. Did you know that: Western Australia is the largest producer of canola. Canola is grown for its seed, which is crushed for oil and used to produce cooking and edible oils and margarines. Australia is the second largest exporter of canola seed. 

Grade 5 students are completing the evaluation step of the design process. Their game must demonstrate how we could grow food on Mars, considering how its atmosphere differs from Earth’s and what would be needed to make it more Earth-like.

Grade 6 students are learning to produce and evaluate muffins. They demonstrated responsibility and maturity in carrying out their roles during the production process. Grade 6 students also identified the four fundamental rules of safe and hygienic food preparation. Here is the recipe for the blueberry muffins: https://www.egglesscooking.com/vegan-blueberry-muffins/ 

STEM team