Growing a STEM Classroom

Looking for a way for your students to keep track of the things they learn doing STEM challenges, breaks, and/or activities?  Why not try keeping STEM notebooks this year?

Just grab either a spiral notebook or a composition book for each student!  I print the lab sheets, vocabulary sheets, and posters at a 90% zoom so they fit perfectly into the notebook!

This STEM notebook should last the entire school year!

My students find it to be a great resource for recording their ideas, successes, and failures.

You can add photos, illustrations, and other items to the STEM notebook, too!

We focus on a specific STEM topic each month in our classroom, so students can learn from previous failures as they work on figuring out new tasks.  We usually start the school year with towers!

I have a STEM bulletin board in my classroom each year and we use these notebook packs to fill the board up over the course of the month.  

Each of the notebook packs contains vocabulary cards related to the topic, background information about the topic, different posters, diagram, bulletin board title letters, and a couple of notebook pages to record information about it.

We add information and materials to this bulletin board throughout the month.  We even attach some of our best towers to the board (or at least pictures of them)!

We find this to be a great resource to have in our classroom!

We use the following schedule for our monthly STEM topics:

August - 3D Shapes

September - Towers

October - Paper Airplanes

November - Roller Coasters

December - Structures

January - Rockets

February - Catapults

March - Bridges

April - Vehicles

May - Boats

June - Parachutes

You can move these topics around so they work for your classroom and your curriculum!  As these packs are made, I will link them and bundle them!

Let's really GROW your STEM classroom this year!