After initially starting by making cubes from nets (flat pieces of paper), students use a workshop time to create unique designs from one large or small piece of grid paper. Each new design has to be more complicated than the next.
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Our Community Construction Project is causing a lot of excitement this week during first grade social studies. Before spring vacation, the class learned about the concepts of needs and wants within the context of a community. The children listed everything they thought should be in a community. During another class session everyone worked together to […]
In a unique product design project, fifth-grade art students took their ideas to paper, manipulated them on the computer and then presented them in three dimensions. Not only did the students have to invent and name a product, but they also had to create it and package it.
Trinity Episcopal School recently had its first school-wide STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) celebration where students constructed “fun machines” out of recycled materials using an iterative design cycle. Students worked in cross-divisional groups (kinder with 8th graders, 4th with 5th, etc.) to construct a “fun machine”; an invention that people could enjoy by playing […]