Engineering and Collaboration

Kindergarten is embarking on an architecture study and coincidently, so is sixth grade.  Kinders took a field trip across campus to learn all about the seismograph machines that the sixth graders engineered.  Kinders and sixth graders will collaborate more over the next few weeks.

PreSchool Engineers



The PreSchool STEAM students read a wide variety of Goldilocks and the Three Bear books and compared similarities and differences. They discovered that in each version, Goldilocks broke Baby Bear’s chair. Surprisingly, they received a note from Goldilocks expressing her regret about breaking the chair. She asked the TCS PreSchool students to help redesign and engineer a chair for Baby Bear. Using a rock to simulate the weight of Baby Bear and after studying different types of chairs and noticing how many legs they each had, what the seat part was like, and what the backrest was like if any, the students designed, engineered and built a new chair for Baby Bear. They used materials provided by Goldilocks.

Although Tuesday was a shortened day,  it was a perfect day for PreK chemistry!

Valentine's Day was a special day for PreSchoolers!

With the Super Bowl on Sunday, how about a week of football STEAM style?

Kindergarten and first grade students watched videos to see how engineers create different balls for different sports, create rules for games, and make equipment safe by testing and redesigning. They then learned about the game of football: the rules, the math, the science, and the physics. After studying shapes on a paper template, students made origami footballs and then created a table top football field. Of course each game started with an official coin toss but not before engineering a goal post for their football fields. The classroom was a buzz Friday afternoon with cheers of excitement as the students played table top football. PreK students also got a taste of the football fever during their STEAM class.