STEM BOX – PRIMARY:  YEARS 3 – 6

What does the box include?

•  120 laminated student cards:
  • 20 different investigations organised into five themes
  • Six copies of each card (printable versions as well)
•  A comprehensive full Teacher Resource Book with full online access.
•  STEM Box Years 3-4
•  STEM Box Years 5-6

Tick every box with STEM Investigations:

•  Easy to use
•  Expert authors
•  Supports classroom differentiation
•  Curriculum aligned
•  Highest quality
•  Extremely good value
• For Middle and Upper Primary

Teacher’s Components

Resource Book and Digital Resources provide:

•  STEM implementation support
•  Links to useful resources including videos, learning objectives, apps and websites
•  Detailed curriculum links
•  Support to utilise the Design Thinking process
•  Suggested pacing schedule
•  Assessment resources such as rubrics and self-assessment
•  Reproducibles

The Design Thinking process:

•  Made famous by Stanford University Design School
•  Guides students through the stages required to produce an end product
•  Stage 1 – empathise with and find different points of view
•  Stage 2 – define the issue
•  Stage 3 – ideate by generating lots of ideas
•  Stage 4 – create a prototype
•  Stage 5 – test their design.

Student Cards

STEM Investigations are organised into five themes:

1.  Built World –machines, building designs, town planning and transportation.
2.  Managed World – human-made systems, communities and manufacturing.
3.  Natural World – animal and plant life cycles, adaptations, geological changes, extreme events and chemical science.
4.  Sustainable World – finite resources, human interactions with the natural world and sustainability.

Features:

•  Each investigation card presents a real life situation
•  Guided enquiry approach
•  Every card requires the application of STEM
•  Ability to work individually, in pairs or in groups.

How it works:

•  The challenge outlines key scientific learning and questions to consider
•  Key understandings identify curriculum links
•  Key vocabulary lists terms and definitions that are important for the investigation
•  Key actions give an overview of the task
•  Design thinking stages explores relevant thinking
•  The big picture provides a snippet of information to spark student interest.