STEM Online Workshops – Week 2
Mar 23, 2020 10:00AM—Mar 27, 2020 3:00PM
Cost $10 per workshop
Event Contact Lisa Rodriguez | Email
Categories Online Workshop
*LIVE* Online STEM Workshops with the Long Island Explorium
Supporting STEM Learning Outside the Classroom
*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
Afternoon
- 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm - K-G2
- 2:15 pm - 3:00pm - Grades 3-6
Cost:
- $10 per Workshop per student
Registration opens Saturday, March 21st at 6pm.
**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 23rd - Friday, March 27th
Material list for all workshops can be found here.
Monday, March 23rd - Fridge Magnetism
Join us for an interactive physics workshop where we explore how to test the strength of magnets and which materials are magnetic. We will challenge you to try and make your own magnet! How can you increase the strength of your magnet? How can you stop it being magnetic entirely?
Cross-Cutting Concepts Explored:
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
- How can you test the strength of your magnet?
Patterns
- What is the relationship between the amount of time you spend making your magnet and how strong it is?
Cause and Effect
- How can we stop our magnet being magnetic?
Tuesday, March 24th - Pattern-Spotting and Making Links with Ink
Join us for an interactive chemistry workshop. You may be surprised by the colours contained in your marker pens. We will explore how to separate them out and then how to use that knowledge to predict patterns and create beautiful designs.
Cross-cutting Concepts Explored:
Patterns
- Can you predict what colors of ink are contained in each of your marker pens?
- Can you predict how different marks will spread out?
Energy and Matter
- How can you tell how many different colors of ink are contained in your markers?
Wednesday, March 25th - Sweet Kitchen Science!
Join us for an interactive workshop where we challenge you to make your own ice cream! Explore measuring and quantities, and the meaning of melting and freezing point. How is the temperature of the mixture affected by the ingredients? Which way is the energy flowing?
Cross-cutting Concepts Explored:
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
- If we wanted to make ice cream for your whole family, how much of each ingredient would you need to use?
Energy and Matter
- Where is the energy flowing from and to when you are making your ice cream?
Cause and Effect
- What is the effect of the changing temperature on your ice cream?
Thursday, March 26th - 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?
Friday, March 27th - Bubble Trouble.
Join us for an interactive workshop in which we explore bubbles and surface tension! Students will make predictions and test them using homemade tools. We will also explore 2D and 3D shapes, explore edges, corners and faces
Cross-cutting Concepts Explored:
Structure and Function
- Can you predict the most stable shape for the bubbles to form?
Patterns
- If we change our shape by removing or adding an edge, can you predict how that will change the shape of the bubble?
1 pm - 1:45 pm Graders K-2
2:15 pm - 3 pm: Grades 3-6
Weds, March 25th - Friday, March 27th
Material list for all workshops can be found here.
Wednesday, March 25th - Forces for Fun: Building Rollercoasters
Join us for an interactive workshop where we challenge you to build a rollercoaster for a marble! We will explore Newton's Laws of Motion and how we can use these to ensure our marble has enough energy to get round the track but does not go flying off. Your rollercoaster will not have an engine - so how do we need to design it to ensure that the marble keeps rolling?
Cross-Cutting Concepts Explored:
Energy and Matter
- Where does your marble get its energy from? How could you give it more or less energy?
Cause and Effect
- What happens if you change the initial height of your rollercoaster?
Materials needed:
- construction paper
- roll of tape
- marble
- scissors
- sheet of cardboard for the base of your rollercoaster
- recyclables (cardboard boxes, kitchen roll tubes etc) OPTIONAL.
Thursday, March 26th - Bridging the Gap.
Join us for an interactive workshop where we challenge you to build a road bridge! Your bridge must be tall enough that a toy car can fit underneath and strong enough that a toy car can drive over the top. Your only construction materials will be paper! We will explore the different parts of a bridge and why they are needed and how strong different shapes of bridge are.
Cross-Cutting Concepts Explored:
Structure and Function
- How can we fold the paper to make the deck of the bridge as strong as possible?
Systems and System Models
- What is the function of each of the parts of your bridge?
Scale, Proportion and Quantity
- What is the maximum length your design of bridge can be? What happens if we make it too long?
Materials needed:
- construction paper
- roll of tape
- scissors
- toy car
- ruler
Friday, March 27th - Lift off! Paper Airplanes
Join us for an interactive workshop in which we explore how to make objects fly! We will explore the different forces needed for flight and how we can generate them, starting with a basic design of paper airplane and improving it using the Engineering Design Process. We will take measurements to try and assess which plane flies the best.
Cross-Cutting Concepts Explored:
Scale, Proportion and Quantity:
- What is the effect of different sizes of wings on the time the plane is airborne for?
Energy and Matter
- Where does the energy to fly your plane come from? And where does it go?
Materials needed:
- copy paper
- scissors
- tape
- stopwatch/timer
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.
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