Our Davis STEM Store shelves are in and our goal is to stock them with all the supplies needed to serve as a go-to resource for teachers as they build STEM learning into everyday activities. Let’s help them get off to a great start!
STEM aims to foster inquiring minds, logical reasoning, and collaboration skills. These are valuable skills for our elementary age students! The Davis STEMologists have teamed up with our new STEM teacher to compile this list of items that you may have around the house or can be found at your local dollar store or Walmart!
STEM aims to foster inquiring minds, logical reasoning, and collaboration skills. These are valuable skills for our elementary age students! The Davis STEMologists have teamed up with our new STEM teacher to compile this list of items that you may have around the house or can be found at your local dollar store or Walmart!
Ms. Thompson's 3rd grade class in the STEM Lab.
Hello Davis families! Thanks to the amazing fundraising done by all of you at last Spring's Davis Dash, we were able to hire a full time STEM Instructor. Meet Mr. Hanft:
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I will never forget my first teaching experience. I was fresh out of college, and trying to explain photosynthesis to a group of young daisy scouts. It did not go well, but that exposure to environmental education instilled in me a passion for teaching others about the natural world that surrounds them. Since that day I have worked hard to develop my skills as a teacher of students of all ages. I have worked with Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Georgia Aquarium, and a number of local nature preserves around metro Atlanta, including Chattahoochee Nature Center, to ensure that visiting field trips receive the very best educational experience. As a teacher, I aim to immerse students in the wonders of science through fun, hands-on, and safe investigation and experimentation. I am excited to introduce the students at Davis Elementary School to the amazing opportunities the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Lab can offer. My vision for our STEM lab will have students programming robots and computer programs, cultivating native butterfly gardens, charting right whale migration patterns, and exploring STEM career options they may have never thought possible.
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The 2nd grades
got to work with radiometers and weather balloons! |
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The 5th graders learned about radiation by doing a shielding experiment using Beta Gamma radiation sources and Geiger Counters. They took readings of three radiation sources and then tested shielding material.
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2nd graders experimenting with chemical reactions!
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Fifth Grade Straw and Spaghetti Bridge
How much weight will it hold?
Hover your mouse over the picture to find out!
First Grade Fun in the Science Lab!
First grade was studying weather in their classroom. They went to the science lab to build a structure to withstand wind. A fan was used at different speeds to represent wind. The fabulous first graders also made anemometers and went outside to test them!
The ice bucket challenge is a bridge building exercise using straws, toothpicks, spaghetti, paper, and paper clips. First grade is studying water, so they used ice cubes for the weights.
Fourth Grade Fun in the Science Lab!
The water tower challenge used tubing, straws, binder clips and clay to move water out of a bottle in controlled fashion to demonstrate hydro static pressure.
Check out our awesome 5th graders and the Tall Tower Challenge!
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The first two weeks have been science focused, and the next two weeks will be more STEM focused. The kids (and Mrs. Havrilla) "sparked" their science imagination! They did a Tesla Coil demonstration!
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Here the kids were
testing building designs for earthquakes. |
Third
Grade Crane Challenge |
