Johnson Elementary STEAM Lab

In the lab this week:
K- 3 Billy Goats Gruff Bridge
1- Cinderella Escape Before Midnight
2- Jack and the Beanstalk Build
3- 3 Little Pigs Wolf Proof House
4- Wings for Icarus
5- Oil Spill Clean Up

Families! The Lab is holding an ornament contest for students! Please read the flyer below and happy creating! 🎄🎁

Celebrating Halloween this week with some fun STEM challenges! 🎃👻

K- Pumpkin Ramps with The Roll-away Pumpkin by Junia Wonders

1- Pumpkin Balancing with Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

2- Going Batty Place Value Caves with Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

3- Haunted House Hide-a-Way with Sphero Indi

4- Marble Cauldrons with Boo Stew by Donna Washington

5- Puking Pumpkin Experiment

In the STEAM Lab this week:

K- Animal Architects (how animals provide for their needs by changing their environment)

1- Stellaluna (how parent animals help their offspring survive)

2- Cactus Hotel pt 2 (habitats/biomes around the world)

3- 999 Tadpoles (animal life cycles)

4- What Would You Do With a Tail Like This pt 2 (how an animal’s traits help it survive in its’ environment)

5- The Mystery of the Monarchs (butterfly camouflage)

Rounding out the week with 3rd grade sorting animals into different categories. We learned all about internal and external animal traits and how to categorize animals!

5th grade learned how energy is transferred through living things in an ecosystem with food webs! Plus we got to enjoy being outside!

WORMS! 🪱 🪱

Kindergarten had SO much fun learning about living and nonliving things with our gummy worms and our earthworms!

In the STEAM Lab this week:
K: Living vs Nonliving (WORMS!)
1: Where’s My Mom (Animal Parents & Offspring)
2: Cactus Hotel (Habitats & Biomes)
3: Different? Same! (Animal Traits)
4: What Would You Do With a Tail Like This? (Animal Adaptations)
5: Butternut Hollow Pond (Food Chains & Food Webs)

Round up of the last couple of weeks!

In the Lab this week:

Kindergarten- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Balance Trees

1st Grade: Finish Rosie Revere Zip Lines

2nd Grade: Finish Bad Seed Houses

3rd Grade: Bridges (2 week project)

4th Grade: Bridges (2 week project)

5th Grade: Bridges (3 week project)

In the STEAM Lab this week:
K- Not a Stick Imagination Challenge
1- Rosie Revere Engineer Zip Lines
2- The Bad Seed House Designs
3- Marker Mazes
4- Going Place Part 2 (Vehicle Designs)
5- Coin Buckets