Supporting STEM Learning Outside the Classroom

*LIVE* Online STEM School 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

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.


Times & Ages : 

Afternoon

  • 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm - K-G2
  • 2:15 pm - 3:00pm - Grades 3-6

Cost:

  • Free

Registration opens Saturday, March 28th at 9am.

**Link to access will be sent in a separate email after registration the night before scheduled workshop date by midnight.


1 pm - 1:45 pm Graders K-2

2:15 pm - 3 pm:  Grades 3-6

Monday, April 6th - Tuesday, April 7th


Monday, April 6th - Bridging the Gap - Building Bridges.

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

Tuesday, April 7th - 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.

Link to access will be sent in a separate email after registration the night before scheduled workshop date by midnight.  

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