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STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math. At ISTCI, students from Grades 3 to 8 have STEAM once a week.
Our STEAM sessions allow students to work together by planning, designing and building. The children are also able to analyze and discuss their findings on what they think went well and how they can make improvements. It helps to foster their creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
Each class starts with an idea. The students are set in small groups which help them focus on cooperating as a team to design and build.
Sometimes, their ideas work quite well. Sometimes they do not, but every lesson is a learning experience!
- how to persevere
- how to learn from failure and still try again
- how to re-evaluate, redesign and re-think a problem to create a unique and inventive solution.
All of these skills (among many more) are learned through STEAM activities.
Students from Grades 3 to 8 have built bridges, made towers from paper, made shoes that make noise, made parachutes, designed and built cars. Also, they have built tall structures using only toothpicks and gumdrops-using their knowledge of solid structures.
Every lesson is an ongoing learning experience!
