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STEM Integration

for K-5 Classrooms

How to engage students and create deeper
learning with STEM extensions and mobile

technology.

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Courtney Arnote

K-5 Technology Innovations

carnote31@gmail.com

@ArnoteCourtney

@carnote18

My Position

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Technology Innovations

●Specials class such as - PE, Music, Art, Library

●Not many districts have positions like this

●STEM, engineering, iPad basics, macbooks, apps,
websites, coding, 3D printing

●Apple Products - Clips, Keynote, Numbers, Pages,
iMovie, Notes, etc.

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Tools, Apps, and
Ideas
Get a database of Tools
for teaching with this list
of apps and tools

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Why incorporate
STEM and Mobile
Technology?

Find out how your class can
become a highly engaging place
where deeper learning occurs.

STEM Extensions
Math & ELA

K-5 math aligned STEM
activities and extensions

STEM Extensions
Science
STEM activities aligned
with Kansas Science
Standards

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Why incorporate

STEM into K-5?

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Create engaging extensions to core areas

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Students move and do hands-on activities

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Can work together and collaborate on solutions

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Help students problem-solve authentic situations

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Give new life to topics that are not interesting to some
students

STEM in K-5

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Improves teamwork

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Helps with frustration tolerance and learned helplessness

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Project-based learning opportunities

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Real-world implications

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CREATIVE!

STEM in K-5

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Apps, Tools, and

Ideas

STEM
Cart

Magnet toys

Keva Planks

Task
Cards/Challenges

Duct Tape

Legos

K’nex

Brainflakes

Pattern
Blocks

School-Wide checkout for
STEM cart on Google Sheets.

Teachers Sign up for a date
and time and either come get
the cart or send a student
down to get it.

Good for easing into STEM
and STEM challenges.

STEM Cart

Tangram Tiles

Straw Connectors

Magnet toys

Plus Plus

Zoobs

K’nex

Brainflakes
Pattern
Blocks

Tools and Apps

Use Keynote to create audio
and visual presentations - STEM
career job research

Students can use Clips to record
short videos - Social studies,
science, ELA

Book Creator is a great
technology addition to ELA -
interactive use of tech

Google Earth makes geography
come to life - regions 4th S.S.

Tools and Apps

Students can record their
ideas with voice memo

Draw and easily revise engineering
designs with Sketches School -
monster - 3D print designs

Record experiments, take
photos of the process, and use
time lapse or slow motion

ELA extensions with
Audacity podcasts

Useful websites

Vocaroo.com - students can record
their voice and turn into a QR
code. Create project, put voice to
it.

PBS design squad - good
engineering challenges and
projects for 3-5th.

www.code.org - good for
incorporating coding for all
levels - I have used with
1st-5th. Early finishers, free
time

Pixton.com - PAID - $99
annually for as many classes as
needed. All subject areas

Useful

websites

http://dailystem.com/ -
podcast, newsletter, ideas

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Math and ELA
aligned STEM

Math andELAK - 1

Kindergarten Math

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1

Celebrate counting to 100 with
a STEM challenge that involves
creating something with 100 of

something: linking cubes,

paperclips, pipe cleaners, etc.

Kindergarten ELA CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1.B
After reading The 3 Little Pigs have

students try and create a sturdy
house with classroom materials.

Work together as a team. Goldilocks
- create a “bed” for Goldilocks using

certain materials.

1st ELACCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1

After identifying the setting,

characters, and main event of a

story, have students reenact
the plot in a movie using the
camera app or stop motion

with legos.

1st grade math

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.A.2

Have students make toothpick
and marshmallow towers, then

measure height with linking

cubes.

KDG

Capacity-

STEM

challenges

1st Math -
Hundred’s

Day

Math andELA2-3

2 MathCCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.4

Give students a piece of paper.
They need to see how long of a
chain they can make. Measure

with yardsticks.Compare
lengths to other students.

2 ELACCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.7

Work on a collaborative book

with peers in book creator.
Include pictures and words.

3 ELACCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2
Turn writing about an

informative topic into an
experience. Have students
create a keynote about the

topic and use audio and visual

components.

3 mathCCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.1

With materials from the
classroom, have students
create and take pictures of

arrays.

2nd ELA -
Keynote

about

nonfiction

text

2nd Math -
Measuring
paper chain.

This was a free download from Carly
and Adam STEM on TPT - Then I

added the measuring aspect.

3rd Math -

STEM

challenge

with money

involved.

Use cardboard to create a ramp that a ball rolls the
slowest down. Let students “buy” different fabrics,
household materials, and things with “money.”
Have things be different prices and give students a
“budget.”

Math andELA4-5

4 Math

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.4.C

STudents use keynote to talk

about and show different
fraction word problems to

teach other students.

4 ELACCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2

After researching, create a

biography of someone famous.

Turn it into a thinglink. To make it
more engaging, dress up like the
person. First, plan your costume

by drawing/engineering it on

Sketches School.

5 ELA CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.7

After doing a research project
on a topic, create an iMovie or

Clips Documentary. Include

narration and pictures.

5 Math

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.G.A.2

Draw a picture on graph paper
using points. Then, record the

directions for someone to

graph the points and draw it.

4th -

Research

Project Turn

into

Documentary

5th ELA -
Podcast

Book Review

Bumper music
“Guest” character
Book review

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Science aligned

STEM

Science STEM K, 1, 2

K ScienceK-2-ETS1-1 Engineering Design

Have students engineer to solve a problem. Students are outside and it is hot. They

need shade! Have sudents use sketches school to draw their design, then use materials

to make their shade design. Test it outside with thermometers in the sun.

1 Science1-PS4-3 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information

Transfer

See how light transfers through objects. Students should make something with
classroom materials and predict its effect when a beam of light is passed through.

2 Science2-PS1-2 Matter and Its Interactions

States of matter - use different states of matter: oobleck, play doh, water, etc and have

students observe their interactions with the camera app with videos and pictures.

Students then create a video about the best use for one substance.

KDG Science
- Grass Seed

Quick - take pictures - turn into
stop motion
Life cycle - seed, grass, seed,
plant it!
Water, sun, light

2nd Science

- States of

Matter

Make oobleck!

Churn Butter - turn liquid to solid AND
incorporate learning about Pioneers (Social
Studies) with science!

Science STEM 3, 4, 5

3 Science3-PS2-1 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Students will plan and create a miniature playground. Students will then
record themselves talking about the balanced and unbalanced forces on the
playground.

4 Science3-5-ETS1-1 Engineering Design

Egg drop experiment for force and designing something with budgetary

constraints. Students plan and design something with classroom materials to
protect an egg. Each item costs “money” and students have a budget to make

their egg protector.

5 Science3-5-ETS1-2 Engineering Design

Give all students the same problem/opening event. Then, form teams and have
students come up with creative solutions to the problem. Solutions should be
drawn and planned in Sketches School or talked about with Audacity.

4th Science -

Pixton

vocabulary

Unpaid alternative - have students “draw” a
comic panel on Sketches School that depicts
the vocabulary word.

5th Science -
Engineering
Project and

energy

Pumpkin Catapults - with
Candy pumpkins

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