STEM Crazy teachers at VASCD.

1. STEM and PBL in the Differentiated Classroom
Alisa Downey and Tina Coffey
STEM Crazy Teachers

2. Introductions

3. Engaging Students

4. • Engineering and Design Thinking at OGE Video

5. Create a Catapult
Your mission is to create a catapult to launch a puff ball using
the materials given. Let’s see which group can launch the puff
ball the farthest!
You will have eight minutes to create.

6. Catapult Competition
• Let’s put your catapults to the test.
• How far will your team’s catapult launch the pom pom?

7. Our Catapults

8. STEM Project: Fourth Little Pig’s House
• Big Bad Wolf Video

9. STEM Project: Fourth Little Pig’s House
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

10. STEM Project: Fourth Little Pig’s House

11. Technology:
Pic Collage
STEM Project: Fourth Little Pig’s House

12. STEM Project – Insulated Snowmen
Snowmen All Year Long
by CaralynBuehner

13. STEM Project – Insulated Snowmen
Provides leveled text, readers theaters, and take home books.
Technology:
Beyond Penguins and Polar
Bears Website
http://beyondpenguins.ehe.
osu.edu/

14. Academic Differences: Grouping Options
• Purposeful grouping
• Student choice/Teacher Choice
• Individual
• Partner
• Group
• Multi-leveled Design Briefs

15. Technology:
Camera App
STEM Project – Insulated Snowmen

16. STEM Project – Insulated Snowmen

17. Technology:
Pic Collage Technology:
Videolicious
STEM Project – Insulated Snowmen

18. STEM Project – Insulated Snowmen
Videolicious
• Snowman Video
Example 1
Example 2

19. PBL Project: Free Little Libraries
http://littlefreelibrary.org/
• That Book Woman by
Heather Henson
• The Librarian of Basara by
Jeanette Winter

20. PBL Project: Free Little Libraries

21. PBL Project: Free Little Libraries
Technology:
Pic Collage

22. PBL Project: Free Little Libraries

23. PBL Project: Free Little Libraries

24. STEM Project: Famous Virginians to Life!
• VA Statues of Religious Freedom Video
Technology:
Do Ink
Green Screen

25. STEMProject: Legos Houses Technology:
iMovie

26. STEMProject: Legos Houses Technology:
iMovie
Lego Movie Trailers

27. STEM Project: Becoming Authors
Technology:

28. Project: Rosa Parks Videos
Videolicious Video:
Technology:

29. Blogging About STEM Technology:
Kidblog

30. Comments-Authentic Audience
Tip: #Comments4Kids
Technology:
Twitter
#Comments4Kids

31. Science --Niche Bots

32. Science --Niche Bots
• Niche Bot Video

33. Science –Niche Bots
Trading Card App from Read, Write, Think
Technology:
Trading Cards

34. Technology: Bridging Background Knowledge
Use videos, images, and text to help build prior knowledge.
Example: Iditarod
http://iditarod.com/ http://itcteacheronthetrail.com/

35. Example Project: Iditarod Tracking
Students research mushers and create a trading card on one of them. Students will
follow 5 of the mushers during the Iditarod.

36. This Year’s Challenge: SPED Makerspace
• SPED Makerspace Video

37. Makerspace: Little Bits

38. Tina Coffey
Instructional Technology Resource Teacher
Roanoke County Schools
Email: tcoffey@rcs.k12.va.us
Blogs: http://tcoffey.edublogs.org
Alisa Downey
Special Education Teacher
Oak Grove Elementary
Email: adowney@rcs.k12.va.us
Blogs: http://kidblog.org/Thompson-Downey-4/
STEM and PBL in the Differentiated
Classroom
Find Design Briefs, Presentations, and Examples at
http://www.STEMCrazyTeachers.com.