A space where students can read and respond to ideas and information Mr. Delemeester shares for and about our classroom. The four rules for all posts and comments on this site are that they must be Responsible, Respectful, Honest and Caring.
1. Create a post named: Developing Synthetic Heart Tissue
2. Add a LINK to the article in your blog post
3. Write a PARAGRAPH in your personal STEM BLOG responding to the following prompt:
How can learning about 3D Printing in our STEM Enrichment time help us better understand this article?
Students in Science 8 are using spare class time to use Computer Aided Design to create objects to print on our 3D printer. The key chains shown below are some of the first objects created.
Students are encouraged to use spare time to investigate STEM enrichment activities, and then to write about their experiences on their individual blogs.
I hope you had a great weekend. I was busy catching up with some gardening, paint "touch-ups", lawn mowing, and schoolwork.
I checked out the Google Classroom assignment asking you to post your Blog URL's. Many students shared their information correctly, unfortunately some students posted URL's that did not take me to their Blogs. I posted the link you sent to the classroom into an app called Feedly. If the link was valid your post appears on the feed for your class. The images below show the student blog comments from third and fourth block.
If you don't see your blog in the list then either your link was invalid or you did not make a post. If your Blog is not on the list please update the blog URL in the Google Classroom assignment and/or complete your first post. Please ask me, Mrs. Beresford, or someone who is on the list below for help if you're having trouble.
Eighth Grade students at New Lothrop Jr. Sr. High School had fun in class on Friday, August 25th investigating 3D Printing and Tinkercad! Students also created their own Blog where they will be publishing information about their STEM Enrichment activities. Stay tuned for further updates!
I was overwhelmed by the variety of ideas described in the comments on the post from August 20th. While there was a great diversity of projects mentioned, most students commented that they want to investigate 3D printing.
As luck would have it, we just received a brand new MOD-T 3D printer at the end of the day yesterday. I set it up after school and we can give it a trial run during class tomorrow so you can see a printer in action!
Because of the overwhelming interest in 3D printing we might also take a look at the Tinkercad website for designing projects to print.
Please share your ideas in the comments section when we are done with STEM enrichment today.
I hope you had a good break. I am interested in hearing what you did over the summer! On the first day of school Mr. Delemeester and the students will answer warm-up questions and then use the warmup answers to share their names and an interesting fact about themselves. After we introduce ourselves we will navigate to MrDelemeester.com and look at some of the topics we will be studying in Science Class this year and review class procedures and teacher expectations.
We will also discuss how Mr. Berthiaume (the Superintendent of New Lothrop Area Public Schools) and Ms. Kuchar, (our new High School Principal) have agreed to allow some time during class to try innovative Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) enrichment activities.
Our goal for the first two days of class will be to become familiar with each other, gain an overview of science class, become introduced to the classroom rules and teacher expectations, and to think about something special and challenging that we can do this year.
We will watch a video published by Gallit Zvi, an elementary school teacher and Vice Principal in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and review a list of idea starters provided by a teacher named Denise Krebs who currently teaches English to 5th Grade Students in Bahrain (don't know where that is? Google It!).
I would like students to consider things we could do with our special time...
Write a Novel
Share Your Knowledge
Design a Video Game
Build a Killer Robot
Direct a Blockbuster Movie
Compose a Symphony
Change the World
Some questions we should ask about ourselves and the world around us are...
What new idea do you want to develop?
What have you been wanting to try?
What skill can you master?
What tool can you learn that will help you work better?
What tool could help you create something beautiful?
What tool could help you communicate better?
How can we make it better?
How can we make each other better?
How do we know this to be so?
Is this what is needed most?
What is it we hope to accomplish and what’s stopping us?
What are we most proud of?
What is possible?
When can we start?
How will we prevent failure?
How can we make this happen?
Who can make this happen?
What do we regret most?
How can we make the best use of…?
What if we…?
Finally I want students to investigate the STEM Enrichment section of MrDelemeester.com and look at the opportunities that we would like to offer students this year. Spend 10 to 15 minutes investigating any of the links on my website that you find interesting and discuss them with Mr. Delemeester and your classmates.
The assignments for the first two days of school are to review the syllabus and expectations documents handed out in class with their parents and return them signed, and to think of something special to do this year and add a comment about it to this blog post.
