STEM

Middle School STEM Initiatives

• 8th Grade - Automation & Robotics- VEX Kits, 45 day rotation
• 7th and 6th Grade - Design & modeling - foot orthosis prototype, 30 day rotation

One double period Science laboratory in every 6 day schedule cycle. The laboratory period is intended to be used as hands on science activity blocked period.

1. Scientific method lab - temperature and pressure
2. Dynamic planet lab - convection currents in the geosphere
3. Saltwater vs. Freshwater Lab - density, hydrosphere
4. Pangaea, Plate Tectonics Lab
5. Cookie Mystery Lab - determining an unknown solid
6. Rocks and Minerals ID Lab
7. Personnel Garbage Survey
8. Penn State, 4-H Extension Watershed Program
9. Science of Baseball Pre-field trip lab (simple machines, physics of baseball)
10. Measuring with Metric Lab

1. Scientific Method lab - pressure
2. Volume/Density Lab
3. Gummy Bear Lab
4. Marble Motion Lab -physical science
5. Rocket Car Balloon Lab
6. Pulleys and Forces
7. Is Air Really There?
8. Cell Membrane Simulation
9. The Big Squeeze Muscle Fatigue Lab - respiration
10. Toothpick Fish Simulation
11. Disease Lab
12. Saint Francis ROCK Program - States of Matter
13. Google VR

1. Pendulum Lab - scientific method
2. Density Lab
3. Metric Lab
4. Conservation of Mass
5. Conductivity/circuits
6. Blood Typing
7. Free Fall Lab
8. Heat Transfer Lab
9. Building 3-D Cell Models
10. Building 3-D Biomes
11. Impact of Abiotic Factors on Biotic
12. Properties of Water Lab
13. Google VR

6th - 8th Grade

1. Baseball Unit - Data analysis - 6th grade
2. IXL
3. Math 24
4. Hour of Code
5. Holiday Recipe Book - fractions
6. Breakout EDU
7. Stacking Cup Lab - systems of equations
8. Create your own restaurant project - 7th grade
9. Create a scaled blueprint of the classroom -7th grade
10. Student Survey -Graphing and illustration project - 7th grade
11. Create your own restaurant project - Geometry
12. Create an Animation - Geometry
13. Excel data project - Geometry
14. Barbie Bungee