• Suitable for Grades K-6

• Includes daily STEM learning activities

• Promotes physical awareness through the STEMin the Gym program

• Incorporates team-based learning

• Builds communication and critical-thinking skills

• Aligns to key engineering concepts encountered in later grades

One of the most difficult challenges facing K-12 educators is finding creative and effective methods of instruction that expose students to STEM disciplines early in their education. But finding a sole source of inspiration, professional development, and curriculum for elementary STEM education is even more challenging. Until now.

Pitsco Education’s Elements to Engineering begins with an intensive professional development component designed to build confidence for educators charged with teaching STEM at the elementary level. After the professional development is complete, educators can choose from a series of team-based, hands-on curriculum suitable for elementary learners.

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ELEMENTS TO ENGINEERING

Promotes physical awareness through the STEM

Builds communication and critical-thinking skills

Aligns to key engineering concepts encountered

development, and curriculum for elementary STEM

Pitsco Education’s Elements to Engineering begins

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Elements to Engineering is an elementary solution to introduce STEM to elementary learners, with an emphasis on engineering. Everyday STEM is a series of professional development units designed for elementary educators. Each specialized unit provides learning strategies and activities for introducing students to simple machines concepts through a kinesthetic approach. These units are combined with our team-based curriculum that provides relevant, engaging, hands-on activities to reinforce engineering and science concepts. The result is an engineering exposure program that integrates math, technology, language arts, and career-related content.

Learning Outcomes and Benefits

• Teachers learn an integrative process for STEM in their classrooms.

• Teachers experience specific hands-on lessons for STEM classroom connections.

• Students experience simple machines in a kinesthetic environment.

• Students are exposed to simple machines vocabulary and concepts.

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OVERVIEW

Complete Solutions for Elements to Engineering

Team-based STEM

Everyday STEM STEM in the Gym

Students acquire skills to solve a problem and analyze solutions as a team. Solving problems on one’s own can be a challenge, but the curriculum offerings below enable students to develop creative problem-solving skills while exploring real-world challenges and engineering concepts.

Grades 3-4

• Air Power

• Design and Test

• Electricity

• Energy and Work

• Levers

• Matter

• Motion

• Scientific Skills

• Skyscrapers

• Space

• Waves

• Wheels and Axles

Grades 5-6

• Circuits

• Crime Lab

• Energy

• Engineering

• Extreme Earth

• Limited Resources

• Motion and Force

• Rocketry

• Scientific Discovery

• Solar System

• Space Exploration

• Technology and Design

Everyday STEM teaches elementary teachers how to leverage what they already do every day to apply STEM concepts. It is this application of STEM that connects with students – tying everyday things to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. And when those connections are made every day, students become acclimated to thinking about the world in a STEM context. Workshop topics include:

• Highlighting the T & E in STEM

• Using the Design Process

• Tools

• Structures

• Materials

• Communication

• Systems

In the STEM in the Gym program, students in Grades K-2 rotate to different stations within the gym to experience the physical operation and actions of simple machines.

• Wedge

• Wheel & Axle

• Screw

• Lever

• Inclined Plane

• Pulley

• Gears