Problem Solving and Innovating

Problem Solving and Innovation

This frame encompasses children’s learning and development with respect to:

  • Use problem-solving strategies, on their own and with others, when experimenting with the materials, processes, and techniques used in drama, dance, music, and visual arts.

  • Use technological problem-solving skills, on their own and with others, in the process of creating and designing (i.e., questioning, planning, constructing, analyzing, redesigning, and communicating)

  • Use the processes and skills of an inquiry stance (i.e., questioning, planning, predicting, and communicating)


Students drawing their observations of caterpillars while we observed their change into caterpillars.

STEM teaches children to develop critical thinking, perseverance, math processes, problem solving and story retelling.

After having raised frogs from tadpoles students had observation books and showed what they learned through art.

Students learn to follow the design/engineering process while building, constructing and experimenting.

S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) challenges gives the students an opportunity to develop critical thinking, work on trial and error and ingenuity.

Technology is in our students' daily lives. Technology can help students work on their fine motor, math and language skills, as well as continue to develop their coding skills.

During the coding process, children are able to build on their creativity, self-confidence and risk taking.