Frisco Elementary STEM News

 Dear Frisco Families, As I have mentioned before, STEM is flip-flopping with music, and I am lucky to have 55 minute blocks of time to work with. Every week, your child gets two STEM times a week, and every other week, your child gets three STEM times during my month. On Monday, they started music again. Here are pictures of last week's events: Kindergarten Creativity Planner - Kindergarteners built with different materials as they learned that architects build buildings that are strong, beautiful, and useful. They also made art out of play dough and pipe cleaners. 1st Grade Animal Adaptations and Dash - Students learned to use block programming to program the robot to act like an animal. Some students even programmed the robots with their own sounds. 2nd Grade Cubelets and Lego WeDo Programming - Students learned the basics for programming these robots. Later, we will integrate them into our STEM challenges. 3rd Grade Hurricane Inquiry and Design Challenge - Students researched...

Frisco Families, Click Frisco Elementary STEM Blog to hear about what we have been doing in STEM this week! Please complete the survey about STEM Communication and your child’s interest in STEM. Thank you so much for those of you who already have! You are helping me with my program goals. VEX club will be held during the day starting on October 11. Interested 5th graders will build robots and compete with two other elementary schools in our district. For more information about this year’s VEX challenge, check out this website. Students have already signed up, and I can’t wait to get started with them.  Check out the pictures below to see your children doing some pretty amazing design challenges and work with robots:) Thank you! Jen Mortensen   Photographs Kindergarten 1st Grade  - Students are learning to program their Ozobots. Ozobots have light sensors that detect color and patterns in color. If you give the Ozobot the right code using a marker line, they will go fast,...