ISM STEAM Day with MIT

ISM STEAM Day with MIT On Wednesday the 23rd of January, as part of our collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), ISM students participated in a STEAM Day Event. Students had the opportunity to collaborate and participate in exciting workshops and activities in all subjects. These activities increased students’ understanding of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts & Maths) while developing their interdisciplinary learning and practical problem-solving skills.

On Wednesday the 23rd of January, as part of our collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), ISM students participated in a STEAM Day Event. Students had the opportunity to collaborate and participate in exciting workshops and activities in all subjects.

These activities increased students’ understanding of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts & Maths) while developing their interdisciplinary learning and practical problem-solving skills.

STEAM Day at ISM Rosinka was full of excitement for the children and teachers, it even counted on the presence of an alien! Early in the morning, as we were all discussing possible projects to be carried out during the day, we were interrupted by an alien who seemed to be very impressed by our ambitious scientific ideas.

The STEAM Day vibe was present all across our school and even our EYFS children got into the researching mood for the day. Pre-Nursery children worked on creating their own fizzing planets, using baking soda and vinegar, while Nursery pupils studied meteorites. They built catapults and shot little stones to the moon to understand what impact it would create on its surface. Children in Reception designed and built their own telescopes and observed what is up in the skies.

1I designed and built a Space Rover prototype while wearing special Astronaut clothes. They used different materials and added wheels to their rover, which ended up very similar to the real ones we see on television. 1J pupils thought that their visitor seemed to be lonely and decided to come up with a friend for him. Their life-sized alien had moveable joints and the children investigated how far it could be moved about with one push.

In Year Two, the children investigated gravity, something that was new to our outer space friend who promised to come back one day to slide down our playground slide. The children used toilet rolls, ramps made out of thick paper and ping-pong balls to test gravity. These were amazing projects.

Children in Year Three decided to launch rockets to outer space. They used baking soda and vinegar to create the explosion responsible for taking off. The children measured how far the rockets travelled and even researched and suggested different techniques we could have used to launch our rockets.

In Year Four, the children thought about the nutrition of astronauts. They researched space food and even managed to make their own. They also designed the bags in which the food should be stored in. Tasty!

Children in Year Five went a bit further and decided to design and build shelters for different planets. For this, they had to study each of the planets’ conditions and build their shelters accordingly. They used different materials to complete their projects.

In the end, our alien friend came back to see the results of these numerous projects and was very impressed. On its second visit, it brought a souvenir for our children: a crystal rock from its own planet.

It was an amazing, very successful day!

Written by Amanda Sampaio, Year 3 Teacher