STEM Online Workshops – Week 4
Apr 07, 2020 10:00AM—Apr 10, 2020 12:00PM
Cost $10 per workshop
Event Contact Lisa Rodriguez | Email
Categories Online Workshop
*LIVE* Online STEM Workshops with the Long Island Explorium
*LIVE* Online STEM Workshops with the Long Island Explorium!
Keep up the learning from home while you are away from school. Our highly trained educators will be reinforcing the NYSSLS cross cutting concepts during these innovative workshops.
Join us each day for interactive online workshops where we challenge you to discover, design and explore innovative STEM projects. We will use simple, everyday materials found in your own home. And, if you can’t find the materials, step up to the challenge and problem solve! There’s always a solution to the problem if we think outside the box!
These workshops are designed to develop an understanding in the Engineering Design Learning Standards. Students will plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
All these workshops are aligned with the NYS Science Learning Standards, ELA and Math Standards. We will be reinforcing the cross-cutting concepts in all workshops.
- Patterns
- Cause and Effect
- Structure and Function
- Systems and System Models
- Scale, Proportion and Quantity
- Energy and Matter
- Stability and Change
Space is Limited to 20 students for maximum interaction. Register now. A link will be sent to you after registration by midnight the night before workshop.
Sign up for the *LIVE* STEM Online workshop
Please download the Zoom app on your tablet or laptop to participate in these workshops.
Space is limited to 20 students per class for maximum class participation. Cost per class: $10/student.
Times & Ages :
Morning
- 10:00 am - 10:45 am - K-G2
- 11:15 am - 12 noon - Grades 3-5
Cost:
- $10 per Workshop per student
**Link to access will be sent in a separate email after registration the night before scheduled workshop date by midnight.
10 am - 10 :45 am - Grades K - 2
11:15 am- 12 pm - Grades 3-6
Monday, March 30th - Friday, April 3rd
Material list for all workshops can be found here.
Tuesday, April 7th - Map It
Join us for an interactive workshop exploring how we can map our new environments! Students will become cartographers and work on producing accurate, topographic maps. We will focus on making measurements and representing information in an easy to understand, visual way.
Cross-Cutting Concepts Explored:
Energy and Matter
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
- What measurement will you use on paper to represent a 1ft distance in the room?
- How could you extend your map to cover the whole floor of your house?
Patterns
- What color scale will you use to represent height in the room?
Wednesday, April 8th - Gone with the Wind *NEW ENGINEERING WORKSHOP*
Join us for an interactive workshop in which we harness the power of the wind to fuel a homemade vehicle! You’ll be challenged to build a vehicle with a sail that can be propelled across the floor using the wind, and we will explore what design of sail works the best. How can you get your vehicle to move fast or slow? Can you change its direction?
Cross-Cutting Concepts Explored:
Cause and Effect:
- What is the effect of changing the size of your sail?
- What is the effect of changing the wind speed?
Structure and Function
- What shape of vehicle will allow it to move the most easily across the floor?
- Is there any way of adding wheels to your structure, or does a smooth flat bottom slide more easily?
Friday, April 10th- Penny Shine! *NEW*
Join us for an interactive workshop exploring how to clean the grubbiest of all household objects - a penny! We will test out different potential cleaning materials and explore which work the best to remove the grime and why that might be. What do the best cleaners have in common? Can you predict which cleaners will work the best?
Cross-Cutting Concepts Explored:
Energy and Matter
- Do some of the cleaning materials work badly on their own but well in combination with other cleaners? Why do you think this is?
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
- Can you create a recipe for the best cleaner? How will you record the amounts you are using of each ingredient?
Patterns
- What do each of the best cleaners have in common?
Cost:
- $10 per Workshop per student
Register online now.
Link to access will be sent in a separate email after registration the night before scheduled workshop date by midnight.
Any questions about registrations, please email Lisa@longislandexplorium.org