Grades 3-5

P.S. 200 - Benson School

This year’s steam expo project is all about creating and manufacturing harmless Gadgets, Gizmos, and Gear. The STEAM TEAM has been approached for a secret project to keep our city safe. Two of our city’s very important human Superheroes must have lots of Gadgets, Gizmos and Gear to help fight crime in our city. We have been tasked with designing this gear for our crime fighters in the “Dark Night.”

We have documented our process for the STEAM EXPO, but this video is for your eyes only... remember we are a secret team!

3-D Shapes and Bird Houses

P.S. 69 - Vincent D Grippo School

Students will use a single sheet of paper (card stock) to fold it into a 3-D shape that will result in the greatest possible volume. Students will design functional bird houses out of their 3-D shapes. After studying M.C. Escher's art designs, specifically tessellations, students will create their own tessellations for the exterior of their birdhouses.

P.S./I.S. 229 - Dyker

P.S./I.S. 686 - Brooklyn School of Inquiry

Using the Engineering Design Process, we have a new way to process recyclable materials. Compacting our plastics and aluminum materials using the "Eco-Smasher". This device will help reduce the use of plastic bags to place recycling in for pick-up.

How many more bottles and cans can we fit using the "ECO-SMASHER"?

P.S. 748 - Brooklyn School of Global Scholars

Can you create a complex invention to complete a simple task? Students understand engineers are people who design or invent solutions to problems by using knowledge of science. Our future engineers were challenged to think about what their goal is, come up with multiple ideas, test those ideas out, and repeatedly fail until they figure out how it works. Can you trace the path of energy through their chain reaction machine?

P.S. 185 - Walter Kassenbrock 

In collaboration with Blue Origin and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), P.S. 185 will be sending a payload to space! The project will explore how a mass on a spring will react in space as compared to how it acts on land.

P.S. 264 - Bay Ridge Elementary School for the Art

While 97% of the earth is in the form of ocean saltwater, over 1 billion people on the planet do not have access to clean drinking water. Our 5th graders have used their knowledge of the water cycle to design a solution to the world's lack of its most precious resources.

P.S. 102 - The Bayview

Have you ever been on a roller coaster and wondered how it works? Roller coasters don't have engines, they convert energy to make the cars move. We are exploring how potential and kinetic energy, and the hills and loops of a roller coaster, work together to take you on an exciting ride!

P.S. 127 - McKinley Park

Spring into the Sahara! The Spring Bunny has arrived and wants to deliver chocolate to the students living in the Sahara desert in Africa.  He has hired class 3-234 from P.S. 127 to help him find a way to keep the chocolate from melting on his journey. This project is derived from a sequential project we created while learning about the different bi​omes that make up Africa’s Land. Each group of students created a diorama to depict a specific biome. They researched different biomes by using the internet, reading articles, referring to their S.S textbook and shared readings. Then the teacher posed the question, “Which biome would be the most interesting to deliver chocolate too?” Come see if the students are successful by utilizing the Engineering Design Process, to help the Spring Bunny deliver chocolate to the students in the desert. 

P.S. 176 - Ovington

In the last 25 years, technology has revolutionized the way we live. Little of that change, however, has impacted transportation.

Living near a bustling city, we came up with a sustainable plan on how we can improve the way we travel. Come with us for a ride on The ScrapeWay!

P.S. 205 - Clarion

Do you have trouble making snowballs in the wintertime while keeping your hands warm and cozy? We do too so we created an innovation to help solve this problem -The Snowballer: The Snow Glove Shape Shifter! We've found a way to keep your hands warm while creating the perfect shaped snowballs! Come take a look! 

P.S. 186 - Irving A Gladstone

How you ever wondered how to slow an object down once it starts accelerating down an incline? Students investigated this idea by creating ball runs that required a ping pong ball to take as many seconds as possible to complete the run. Students had to follow certain criteria and constraints in the area of materials, dimensions and construction.

P.S. 160 - William T. Sampson

Students brainstormed ideas for how they could design and construct their own elevator STEAM Challenge.

P.S. 971 - School of Math, Science, and Healthy Living

What to do when your pencil grip doesn't fit your pen? You engineer one that does! These student engineered pencil grips are designed and built to meet all of our needs combining Art, Technology, Math and Science for the ultimate writing support! 

P.S. 682 - The Academy of Talented Scholars

Students first used their knowledge of coding to design a video game using Scratch and then applied their understanding of circuitry to create a video game remote more accessible for others.  That first started with making it more accessible for people who have conditions or disabilities in which the use of a keyboard is difficult. They tested and created different simple circuits that would allow each button to perform a certain action and expanded their thinking how they could make the remote even more accessible by thinking about a range of different disabilities.

P.S. 180 - The SEEALL Academy 

Our students studied real world problems and engineered, designed, and created possible solutions to these problems. 

P.S. 164 - Caesar Rodney

How can you grow your own food if you don't have a garden or farm? You can grow plants indoors using soil or just water. Come find out what we learned about using soil, UV lights and  hydroponics and how it can allow us to grow food in an urban environment.  

P.S. 247 - Brooklyn

Have you ever sat on the sidelines while your thrill-seeking friends ride the most insane roller coasters? You wouldn’t mind a ride but can’t handle the speed. Come visit our unique rollercoaster that has specially designed cars for both the extreme rider and the more reserved rider!

P.S./I.S. 104 - The Fort Hamilton School

Working with a team to slow down or stop erosion. We defined erosion, and designed and tested a prototype.

P.S. 204 - Vince Lombardi

Students will create an effective wind turbine to generate energy to source and LED light. They will research background knowledge and build upon their science unit, adding on to the criteria given, as well as include better, more effective materials.

P.S. 179 - Kensington

Where does your drinking water is coming from? In NYC, it comes out of your faucet, but how does it get there? Drinking water all over the world originates from either surface waters—such as lakes, reservoirs, and rivers—or from underground sources, such as groundwater. But would you want to drink water straight from a river or lake? Probably not; they can be really dirty and muddy! To become clean and safe, this water first has to undergo several treatment processes which will help get rid of particles in the water and transform murky water into crystal clear water. We decided to design a filter to help people have access to clean water.

P.S. 310 - The School for Future Leaders

Our little scientists will demonstrate their understanding of how solar energy, as one of the renewable energy, can be integrated into grid and enhance our every day life.  

P.S. 503 - School of Discovery and Exploration

Scientists will be taking matter from solids to liquids by adding or taking away heat.  Adding heat to substances (solids becoming liquids) can cause melting and allowing substances (liquids becoming solids) to cool can cause solidification.