Raise your hand if you love reading!! Storybook Stem incorporates key literacy skills with math, science, and engineering. Our weekly activities will center around some of the most well loved children's books. 

Students will examine various artists and art periods throughout time and learn how art has reflected as well as influenced past and present cultures.  Students will create their own artwork, sometimes referencing the styles of famous artists and other times producing artwork that reflects their own personal aesthetics.  Some examples of the art lessons include painting, creating mosaics, and developing 3D sculptures. 

Students will explore how robotics can be used to help humans do different types of jobs.  They will build and code robots using LEGO WeDo 2.0 robotics kits.  They will also use LEGOs to modify a robot design to make it bigger and more powerful.

Spending & Budgeting will be an interactive class that will have students understand money and its value.  In this class, students will have to work on understanding the process of bills, the flow of money through the economy, and different types of jobs.  Students will have created jobs where they will get paid in “Mandaglio Dollars” and need to budget their money to pay bills (Wants & Needs).  They will also work as a team on the “Million Dollar Project” which will require them to find a reputable college to attend, locate a home they would like to purchase, and find different ways to save their money.  

This course will take students back to the beginning of the video game era.  They will research how video game consoles game about, the improvement of visual graphics over time, and create their very own game.  Students will be able to see and play some classic consoles like Atari, Sega Genesis, Playstation 3, PS5, and first hand experience of virtual reality.  A true course that will take you back in time. 

We will explore fun STEM activities designed to engage students through hands-on experiments and activities. Chemistry, life sciences, physics, engineering and more. Students will be making their own roller coaster, an anemometer, paper bridge, floating magnets, password duel and much more.