2. Create an interactive word wall where students add artifacts, notes, and questions. This gives them a place where they control the content delivery they really make connections when they own their learning.
3. Make a wall something about you. Create something that shows your personality and passion. This lets your students know who you are. My Dr. Who mural really connected with my students and it recruited many more Whovians.
4. Allow them to have fun and play. Let them tinker and play with unexpected science. I ordered the Dyson Engineering Box and students made the connection between a vacuum and the human muscular and skeletal systems. We also made Rube Goldberg machines to discuss variables and experimental design.
5. Create a place for clubs to meet. A classroom where students come to build and practice for various competitions. Mine is not only used for Pokemon but also Quiz Bowls and Engineering competitions such as Future City and Energy City of the Future. Model building is a great STEM activity.
6. Display and share student work in the classroom and beyond. My students write a children's book about Cells. A narrative story about organelles and different types of cells. Then we donate them to our feeder elementary school. We take an afternoon and walk them over and read them to the 1st and 2nd grade classrooms. A rewarding PBL.
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