STEM IoP (Illustrations of Practice)

Below are STEM Illustrations of Practice videos from a variety of class/school settings

Catholic Education Tasmania IoP

Caines Arcade - Year 4 (Holy Rosary, Claremont - Catherine Midson) - Students create arcade games out of cardboard, market them and run them with Year 2 students.

4 Poles Robotics Challenge - Year 5/6 (Sacred Heart, Ulverstone - Katherine Katsikis) - Using a Mars Rover context, students solve a navigation challenge (with plenty of Maths).

Litter Project - Year 6 Taroona Primary School - Using technology to solve and create and solve the schools and communities litter problem.

ACARA STEM Illustrations of Practice

This is an excellent resource to see STEM in action in schools - interviews are conducted with students, teachers and industry representatives. Below is a brief synopsis of each one (as each are summarised/reviewed) - click on the above link to see them all:

Cherrybrook Technology High School - Yr 9 and 10 Students research, design, budget and model a new playground area at the school. The technology teacher gives an interesting reflection on the benefit of team teaching when doing a STEM activity. A bonus is a lengthy interview with Maths guru Eddie Woo at his school.

St Stephen's Primary School - Yr 1 and 2 Students embrace and engage with many aspects of STEM - authentic and real world context (Endangered Animals), External providers and experts (inc. Zoos Victoria and engineering/Arts lecturer), Technology (Makey Makey's) and teachers who bring it all together to create great learning outcomes with terrific student engagement.

Walcha Central School - Yr 5 and 6 - The focus of their Years 5-6 STEM Illustration of practice was an integrated learning approach to a food and fibre production unit. Students investigated and designed materials for cladding of a greenhouse, built models and used micro:bits to test their designs by measuring temperature data inside and outside the greenhouse models. There was also use of spreadsheets to graph data and also flaps controlled by a servo motor to let air in when the temperature got too hot.