Over the last couple of weeks I have become more and more interested in how to engage and interest children in STEM subjects. Our students have good mathematical skills, but lack some fundamental literacy skills needed to really comprehend the science, and engineering vocabulary.
So how can we learn to apply these skills without overwhelming them - by making STEM practical.
I thought that if we start with something practical and can include some technical vocabulary, and help students form connections between new vocabulary, and practical application.
So we started with something simple. We built catapults. Here are the instructions students were given.
Concepts discussed; force, energy, trajectory, projectiles, measurement, hypothesis
If you want to see the video, check out the link here!
Keep an eye out for more interesting science and engineering experiments as the year goes on!
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