Month: January 2017

Instant Challenges are one of the cornerstones of the STEAM program.  They occur at the beginning of every STEAM day.  The challenges lead the students through the Design Thinking Process and help develop their mastery of the 4 C’s.  These challenges can be task-based, performance-based, or a combination of both.  With the task-based challenged, students are provided…

This week the students had a chance to light their creative fires! They started out by completing a performance-based instant challenge. In groups of five, they used pantomime to come up with a fantastical machine. Each student played a different part of the machine. The audience had to guess what the machine did and the…

The students became Makers this week!  First, they had to take part in an Instant Challenge where they were tasked to build a tower as tall and stable as possible just from straws.  They also had to identify what problems they might encounter using the straws, and imagine any solutions to the problems.  Using their…

Welcome to Block 2 of STEAM! On our first day we started by getting to know each other with a brief ice breaker.  Students had to state their name, school, and an interesting fact about themselves.  Other students than had to ask a who, what, where, when, why, or how question based on the interesting…