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6th-8th Grade STEAM - Engineering for Wind Power Solutions:
Students collaborated in teams to design, create, test, and optimize the most energy- and cost-efficient wind turbines, using a set budget and materials list. They explored vertical and horizontal axis wind turbines to determine the most appropriate shape, size, and structure to achieve maximum efficiency, incorporating an idea from each group member in their final designs. Students recorded their machines in action over 3 different trials, then analyzed the videos in slow-motion to determine the machine's average frequency and cross-analyzed that against their budget. Engineering design process at work!
6th-8th Grade STEAM - Oil Spill Solutions:
STEAM students are working hard to solve the problem of oil spills by analyzing the various causes and cleanup methods through some heavy-duty - and messy - labs! Through their investigations, they're determining the best cleanup method (among skimming, dispersants, and sorbents) by comparing each method's cost with its effectiveness. Look out world, we've got solutions!Â
5th-8th Grade STEAM - Nature Journaling to meet social-emotional-environmental needs
Did you know nature journaling can help to alleviate stress and connect you with the world around us? Garrison 5th-8th grade students do! We celebrated spring the best way we knew how - by immersing ourselves in it! A blend of social-emotional learning and environmental education, nature journaling challenges students to connect with the world around them using a wide variety of tools and prompts, each with themes of self-reflection and self-expression. The results were beautiful!
6th-8th Grade STEAM - Solar Energy in Dominica:
Students are working with a set of real maps on the different variables that affect the implementation of a solar plant in Dominica, a country in the Caribbean. Students collaborated in teams to incorporate new data from each map - on the country's National Parks, solar irradiation, flood zones, soil types, etc. - into their final decision. Look out future, here we come!
6th-8th Grade STEAM - Women's History Month & Black History Month Projects:
STEAM students highlighted the contributions from the Black community as part of Black History Month. Then, they did the same for Women's History Month. Students researched pioneers in the STEAM industry...but that's not all! They used their knowledge to include the rest of the school in the celebration by making posters about these pioneers and reading about their impact on the world over the morning announcements. Please enjoy their slideshows of their amazing research!
6th-8th Grade STEAM Carbon Footprint Calculations:
The STEAM Team analyzed their impact on the planet by calculating their own carbon footprints - then uploaded them to their own personal websites! STEAM students created websites to serve as portfolios of their work which they use to record and build on their thinking, practice communication, and potentially use to showcase their organizational skills for future job applications!
6th-8th Grade STEAM Guest Speaker:
STEAM students had a guest speaker come in to us virtually from the Brooklyn Sims Municipal Recycling Plant, telling us all about where our waste goes after it's picked up and what it becomes. Did you know?
Aluminum foil can be recycled!
Recycled materials have some interesting stories to tell:
Recycled plastic most often becomes shirts and clothing
Recycled soda cans become new soda cans, on the shelves within weeks!
6th-8th Grade STEAM - Building a Greener Future!
STEAM students learned about eco-friendly practices that we can all take to minimize waste. This week's feature: Ecobricks as a means of recycling various forms of plastics, styrofoam, etc. and reusing the bricks to construct buildings!
6th-8th Grade STEAM - Leprechaun Traps for 1st Grade Buddies:
WOAH! How lucky are we?! 6th grade STEAM students engineered Leprechaun Traps in hopes that we could miraculously catch the notoriously mysterious creatures...and it actually worked!! The Leprechauns delivered personalized letters for the 6th-graders' 1st-grade buddies, then left in an explosion of glitter and joy. 6th graders got to share this magical experience with their buddies and everyone got to celebrate St. Patty's Day together!
Who said tech fluency couldn't be fun? Sphero Battlebots:
These pictures portray an epic battle that took place in my Engineering Design class. 6th-8th grade students were prompted to build machines, maneuvered by Sphero Robots, to pop balloons of their competitors. As shown, students were responsible for operating the machine during the battle. Their diversity of ideas and creativity and engagement with their designs was incredible to witness!
Guiding Question:
How can you blend simple materials and technology to engineer a machine that will pop the balloons of your competitors?
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