PLTW at Hayes Middle School
Hayes is a Magnet school that focuses on a distinctive, and holistic approach to developing young adolescent scholars driven by technological innovation, inquiry, and collaboration. Hayes Community School provides a rigorous curriculum through Project Based Learning in a Dual Language environment.
PLTW's activity-, project-, and problem-based instructional design centers on hands-on, real-world activities, projects, and problems that help students understand how the knowledge and skills they develop in the classroom may be applied in everyday life. The PBL approach scaffolds student learning through structured activities and projects that empower students to become independent in the classroom and help them build skill sets to apply to an open-ended design problem.
This approach provides students with unique opportunities to work collaboratively, identify problems, apply what they know, persevere through challenges, find unique solutions, and lead their own learning.
Students will complete five areas of study throughout their three years at Hayes. The first two introductory PLTW Gateway Units include STEM Integration and the Engineering Design Process. The last three areas of study are completed depending on the class period & grade level your student is in.
- 6th Grade : Design and Modeling
- 7th Grade : Green Architecture
- 8th Grade : Automation and Robotics
Additionally, students will conduct STEM investigations via PLTW, complete STEM mini-lessons using Discovery Education, participate in Math Strategies using Khan Academy, gain exposure to Information Technology & Internet Safety as it applies to this course, and collaborate using Google Classroom, throughout the entire school year.
