2.3 Real-world STEM activities to use in your classroom

Activity

Real-world STEM activities to use in your classroom

Please choose one of the activities from section 2.2, try it with your students and share your experience and/or pictures on the Padlet below. Try to include as many details as possible, such as what worked and didn’t work, and what you would change if you were to run the same activity again. In case integrating the activity in the curriculum proves difficult, ask your students to identify the STEM aspect of an everyday activity! Share their answers below.

My contribution:

One of the activities I tried with my students was during the class of Physics. The students had to check the mass of materials. They brought packings of food  and read the labels. They wrote down the mass in grammars or in kilograms. Then, they compared the packages of food with hand-made libras.

My contribution:

One of the activities I tried with my students was during the class of Physics. The students had to check the mass of materials. They brought packings of food  and read the labels. They wrote down the mass in grammars or in kilograms. Then, they compared the packages of food with hand-made libras.

What worked:

It was easy for the students to find the mass by reading the packing.

What didn't work: The students couldn't say with the right words what mass is (the amount of matter in a material).