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As a former elementary school educator with nearly 40 years of experience, I have moved into the next phase of my journey in education. This page is an index to the different STEM programs I have written and teach as enrichment courses for students in grades 2-5. These programs, as they stand, are written for accelerated students and are based in the Next Generation Science Standards. These programs utilize:
  • An engineeering problem for students to solve which is accomplished through the Engineering Design Process

  • Hands-on science activities centered around the engineering challenge the students have been given

  • Vocabulary development necessary to be able to speak the language of a scientist who would be working with the given discipline

  • The use of the crosscutting concepts inherent in the NGSS

  • Teamwork that relies on communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and innovation

  • A website developed for the program that is under study complete with a page for each grade level, the standards taught for each program, links to support student learning and a photo gallery showing the students working on their challenge

  • Sessions occur once a week, are five weeks in length, and last 60-75 minutes each


Follow the links below to see the programs that have been developed thus far. If there are no photos for that program, it is new and has yet to be taught.



Saving the Shores of Seaside
Designed as a fourth grade program
Del Paso Manor STEM Program, Fall of 2021
Grades 2-5 are all physical science challenges
Del Paso Manor STEM Program, Spring of 2022
Grade 2 is a physical science challenge; grades 3-5 are life science challenges
Earth Science
Grades 2-5 are all earth science challenges
Del Paso Manor STEM Program, Fall of 2022
Grades 2-5 are the same physical science challenges as Fall of 2021
Del Paso Manor STEM Program, Winter of 2023
Grade 2 is a physical science challenge; grades 3-5 are life science challenges
Pershing Elementary STEM Program, Winter/Spring of 2023
Grade 2 has an earth science challenge, grade 3 has a life science challenge and grade 4 has a physical science challenge

All programs can be modified to fit a particular grade level.




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