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STREAM Newsletter Spring 2020

Teachers are turning their homes into remote classrooms. Students are collaborating.

Our Vision:

The STREAM committee is dedicated to developing a program that is inquiry based and that will develop students into confident, self-directed learners. In a safe and supportive environment our students will be engaged in a group problem solving with applicable solutions that develops independent thinking while fostering collaboration. Students will have opportunities to gain read world experience through community partnerships and internships. Our goal is to combine science, technology, research, engineering, art, and mathematics to prepare our students to be Life Ready.

Want to get STREAM-y?

Our new normal...
Whether you utilize schoology...
or Seesaw
Or TEAMS, we are in this together.

Taking Care of YOU While Teaching Remotely!

What’s STREAMing at...

Cooke, & KLR

Cooke

Mrs. Wood and Ms. Bender's first grade class are keeping an eye on these baby tadpoles to watch them grow through each life cycle. Mrs. Wood and Ms. Bender are posting videos on Seesaw for the students to watch from home. Pictured here is the mom, the baby tadpoles, and the tadpole eggs!

The music teacher at Cooke, Mrs. Clayton, is teaching her music classes two songs. They are both about different environments. "A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" is about ocean animals! "Oh, In the Woods" is about how different parts of the environment are connected by a food chain. Here are the links to listen for yourself:

KLR

KLR's annual STREAM Fair was supposed to take place on April 1st. While it's disappointing that we could not hold this fun event and all its activities in school, students continued to work on their projects at home. Using the Engineering Design Process, they created some amazing projects and presented them using Microsoft Teams. Another challenge was to use materials that they had at home due to the shelter in place orders. Students used and/or reused regular household items and repurposed them in order to solve a problem. Over twenty 5th graders participated in the FAIR. KUDOS to everyone on a job well done!

Brooklyn made some homemade paint and turned basic baking ingredients from her kitchen into art.
Nazir tested different materials he found at home to make face masks in order to determine which were the most effective.
Jacob created and tested a few different water filtration systems. He repurposed plastic soda bottles and used a variety of other materials found around his house including sand, pebbles, paper towels, etc. to determine which purified the water best.
KLR fifth grade student, Hayden Gonzalez, planted some seeds at the start of at-home learning. He said that he placed them on his windowsill, so that they can get sunlight to help them grow. He says he waters them about every two days. Pictured here are his lettuce, cabbage, sunflower, and watermelon plants!
KLR fifth grade student. Nikolai Franco, created a color wheel using household items.
KLR students, Nikoli and Sikaya, are using their "Color Chemistry" lab set to conduct at-home experiments!

RJK Middle School

While working at home during this pandemic students and teachers have been using many different means of technology to learn and communicate. Students are working hard on assignments and attending video conferences where teachers can assist them with educational questions.

Illustrating proportions on poster paper using mathematical and art skills.

Using measuring skills to layout of a proportional grid.

Using mechanical leverage to tighten a fan belt on a classic car.

Using art skills to make a blanket.

Random thoughts of what Stream means to our students

Applying measurement skills to process materials for building

Working on science on during the quarantine.

8th Grade team meeting discussing plans for the week.

Looking at assignments on Schoology.

Working hard on his Science assignment.

Showing her work on ELA.

Working hard on all his online assignments.

Monticello High School

Principle of Health Science students are busy making children's storybooks. The purpose of the storybook is to educate elementary students on disease transmission, disease prevention, germs, or the importance of immunizations. We will be sharing these with our elementary teachers around the end of May.

SUPA Forensics took a virtual trip to the Body Farm in Knoxville, Tennessee to learn how insects, mushrooms, and pollen/spores can help solve forensic cases. We couldn't do our traditional Maggots to Murder Lab since we are remotely learning. Normally, students would be given different colored lanyards of varying lengths to represent the different species of insects at different growth stages. In order to improvise for remote learning students were emailed a document containing different colored lines of varying lengths representing the various species. They collaborated in small groups and determined the post mortem index ( time since death) for 4 different cases.

The use of Entomology (insects), Palynology (pollen and spores) and Mycology (fungi) to determine Post Mortem Index (PMI).

GIZMOS are a great way to incorporate laboratory in our remote learning setting.

Students use a GIZMO through Explore Learning to explore wave diffraction in Regents Physics.
SUPA College Physics build circuits through a GIZMO lab.

The Engineering Design Process is the heart of STREAM

Credits:

Created with an image by Mink Mingle - "untitled image"

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