Don't you wish you never had, anything else to do!
Bonjour et Bienvenue to this collaborative site where we will be posting links, photos, and updates about the current STEM project presented by the Language Arts and French department. As you know, Visitation Academy recently adopted a progressive STEM curriculum targeting the promotion of girls in Science. After a year of introductory STEM classes, we have implemented a cross-curricular approach where teachers from all content areas will integrate STEM into their content area. We will present the projects at the STEM Fair in the Spring where we will have demonstrations, photos, and discussions about our work. Until then, we will be blogging our progress and using the website to provide links for class work.
Sharon Creech - The Wanderer
Rogue waves, a giant storm, and a journey of self-discovery unfolds as a young girl and her family cross the Atlantic from America to England.
We will be using Sharon Creech's, "The Wanderer", as the inspiration for a STEM unit on Navigation, Nautical Engineering, and Oceanography. We will study the parts of a sailboat, the aerodynamics of a sail, buoyancy, tides, ocean currents, and plotting a course using real nautical charts. How many nautical miles does one second represent? What do barnacles do at low tide to avoid drying out? What is the difference between True North and Magnetic North? We will answer all of these questions as well as many more as we design boats, tie knots, and chart the school grounds, compasses in hand!
