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What can your Library do for STEM?

Developing 21st century skills in educators and students

North Andover Public Schools

Dale Osborne, Liz Sinclair Fisher,

Courtney Ahearn, Kara Larcome

Stevens Memorial Library

Charlotte Arredondo

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Energizer

Create a 2D structure of a real object using KEVA Planks

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Agenda

  • Our Mission
  • Grants and STEM Resources
  • Reflection on Community & Collaboration Opportunities
  • STEM lesson ideas
    • STEM Poetry Lessons
    • Robots!
    • Green Screen
    • Outside of School
  • Questions?
  • Try it out!

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Our Mission -

Future Ready…

21st century skills

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Grants and shared resources

  • NAPS libraries: Northeast Regional STEM Network grant for $2000
  • Stevens Memorial Library: LSTA Innovative Project Grant for $7,500
  • Shared town/school position

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STEM Resources

What we purchased

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  • Code & Go Robot Mice
  • KEVA Planks
  • Makerspace book(s)
  • Portable Green Screen

Coming soon…

  • Makey Makeys
  • Magnatiles

For use in Stevens

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  • Beebots
  • Magnatiles and Gears
  • Microscopes, Magnifying Glasses, Metal Detectors
  • Engineering Design Kits
  • Telling Time/ Money/ Measurement/ Mass
  • Little Bits/ Makey Makey
  • Code-a-pillars
  • Ozobots
  • Math Games

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Reflection…

  • How does this apply to you?
  • Who might you collaborate with?
  • What 21st century skills could you embed?
  • Where do you see a gap in being Future Ready and how could you fill that gap?

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Lessons with STEM Resources

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Poetry

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Book Spine Poetry

  • Grades 3-5
  • Took picture of their chosen books using student chromebooks
  • Wrote a poem
  • Developed a Google slide with their typed poem and picture
  • Shared them on Google classroom
  • Shared with families at Arts and Academic Fair

Loss

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If you’re reading this it’s too late

My brother Sam is dead

The colossus rises

Running out of time

Get me out of here

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Robots!

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Green Screen

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Teacher/Library STEM Collaborations with Green Screen

5th Grade Green Screen Projects - Biographies & the American Revolution

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Green Screen Project Benefits

  • New dimension to presentations (costumes, performances, etc.)
  • Typically “nervous” students didn’t have to worry and could start over if necessary
  • Predictable amount of class time for presentation
  • Teachers had the final video as evidence to show administrators, parents

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Outside of school...

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Bedtime Math

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Crazy 8’s Math Club: Where Math meets Mischief!

  • Toilet Paper Olympics
  • Glowing Geometry
  • Marshmallow Catapults
  • and more...

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Summer Reading!

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Reflection…

  • How does this apply to you?
  • Who might you collaborate with?
  • What 21st century skills could you embed?
  • Where do you see a gap in being Future Ready and how could you fill that gap?

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Questions?

Lessons Link Here

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Play time!

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Thank you!

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North Andover Public Schools

Dale Osborne - Library media specialist

osborne@nak12.com

Liz Sinclair Fisher - Library media specialist

sinclairfishere@@nak12.com

Courtney Ahearn - Library media specialist

ahearnc@nak12.com

Kara Larcome - pK-12 STEM Director

larcomek@nak12.com

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Stevens Memorial Library

Charlotte Arredondo - Head of Children’s Services

carredondo@northandoverma.gov

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