K-5 STEAM Classroom

The G. Harold Antrim Elementary School has developed a STEAM program that allows students in grades K-5 to experience STEAM lessons once a week with both their classroom teacher and the STEAM teacher. Science happens to be the driving force for the STEAM curriculum for K-5 classes, but the Engineering Design process is infused into the lessons and technology, art, and math also find their way into our lessons often to ensure students are receiving a thought-provoked, well rounded, cross-curricular experience.

The classes are co-taught to ensure lessons in the STEAM room connect to the Next Generation Science Standards taught within the regular education classroom. The STEAM classroom projects are culminating projects of things introduced within the classroom and push the student's understanding by offering real-word, problem solving scenarios for students to ponder.

STEAM classroom experiences are interactive and and collaborative. The goal of the STEAM classroom is to inspire students to be curious.


Kindergarten Topics Include:

  • Forces and Interactions: K-PS2-1, K-PS2-2,
  • Energy: K-PS3-1, K-PS3-2
  • Molecules and Organisms : K-LS1-1
  • Earth's systems and earth and human activity (weather) :K-ESS2-1, K-ESS3-2, K-ESS3-3

1st Grade Topics Include:

  • Waves and Application of Waves : 1-PS4-1, 1-PS4-2, and 1-PS4-3, 1-PS4-4,
  • From Molecules to Organisms : 1-LS1-1, 1-LS1-2
  • Heredity : 1-LS3-1
  • Earth's Place in the Universe : 1-ESS1-1 and 1-ESS1-2

2nd Grade Topics Include:

  • Matter and its Interactions : 2-PS1-1, 2-PS1-2, 2-PS1-3 and 2-PS1-4.
  • Ecosystems : 2-LS2-1, 2-LS2-2
  • Biological Evolution: 2-LS4-1
  • Earth's Place in the Universe and Earth's Systems: 2-ESS1-1, 2-ESS2-1 and 2-ESS2-2, ESS2-3

3rd Grade Topics Include:

  • Motion and Stability :3-PS2-1 and 3-PS2-2, 3-PS2-3 and 3-PS2-4
  • From Molecules to Organisms: 3-LS3-1
  • Ecosystems: 3-LS3-2
  • Heredity : 3-LS3-1 and 3-LS3-2, 3-LS4-1, 3-LS4-2, 3-LS4-3, 3-LS4-4
  • Earth's Systems and Earth and Human Activity: 3-ESS2-1, 3-ESS2-2

4th Grade Topics Include:

  • Energy : 4-PS3-1, 4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-3, and 4-PS3-4
  • Waves and Their Applications: 4-PS4-1, 4-PS4-2, and 4-PS4-3
  • From Molecules to Organisms: 4-LS1-1 and 4-LS1-2
  • Earth and Earth Systems: 4-ESS1-1, 4-ESS2-1, 4-ESS2-2, 4-ESS3-1, 4-ESS3-2

5th Grade Topics Include:

  • Matter : 5-PS1-1, 5-PS1-2, 5-PS1-3 , and 5-PS1-4
  • Forces, Motion, and Energy : 5-PS2-1
  • Organisms and Ecosystems: : 5-PS3-1, 5-LS1-1, and 5-LS2-1
  • Earth and Earth Systems : 5-ESS1-1, 5-ESS1-2, 5-ESS2-1, 5-ESS2-2, 5-ESS3-1