Materials can be changed physically by people and the environment.

Chemical sciences Year 1 Materials can be changed physically by people and the environment.

Bringing it to Life Science Questions
Helping students to construct their own meaning and building on from their prior knowledge and experiences.

Form and Function is an overarching key idea in Science

Objects in nature: Form and Function is an overarching key idea in Science Australian Curriculum:

Many aspects of science are concerned with the relationships between form (the nature or make-up of an aspect of an object or organism) and function (the use of that aspect).

What do you notice?
Can you see any patterns in these biological photos?
How many different repeating shapes can you see? How many of these repeating shapes are the same? Can you group these patterns ? Can you name these groups?
Do you know what each photo represents? How are they like other objects you have seen in nature? What else are they like? Are any of them unusual?

How does the structure enable it to perform its function? (How does its shape of the pattern determine what it is used for?)

How can you explore? What technology do you have to be able to take these kinds of photos?

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De - STEM - ber

De-STEM –ber for primary school

Electric Circuits Greeting Cards: Using a circuit pen draw a simple circuit on a piece of card, then add the batteries and LEDS. Try not to use button batteries because they are not toys and can be easily swallowed.

Dissolving Christmas Candy Canes. Design an investigation to see how you can dissolve the cane the fastest.

http://www.mamasmiles.com/diy-light-up-christmas-cards/

STEAM Connecting imagination with science through story telling:

STEAM Connecting imagination with science through story telling:
Divergent Thinking: Solve Mysteries and add Magic
How Rudolph's nose came to glow?
Students could make up their own story or write a piece of persuasive writing, or draw using scientific facts in answers to the questions in the video.

Why stories matter for childrens' Learning

http://www.theedadvocate.org/why-stories-matter-for-child…/…

You might to also follow up with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFUqQQUpvZc
from New Scientist - scientific reason for reindeer having red nose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcd0_qbb18 Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose, but why? Science has the answer to this age-old question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26roTmutjw
The Science of Christmas

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/the-scientific-reason-why-…/

STEM Integration- Different approaches to learning STEM

There are a number of ways STEM can be integrated. These approaches are dynamic not sequential and movement between the approaches may occur. Just as the shifting roles between teacher and students in consuming and producing knowledge occurs depending on your learning intentions.

For PDF version - bit.ly/78STEM  

STEM Resources

DESIGN Thinking STEM

               DESIGN Thinking STEM

What do you notice?

What is it like?

 Have you seen something like this before?

How does it work?

What questions do you have?

How might you investigate?

Link to Wind Tree - Electricity

Using STEM Design Thinking

WHY

What is it for?

What does it need to do?

What designs already exist?

What information do I need?

HOW

What materials do I need?

What size will it be?

What tools do I have?

What do I need to know?

How will I get more information? 

WHERE

What features does it need?

How will we use it? 

What does the user need to know? 

How will it be different? 

How will it be better?

WHEN

How long will it take to make?

How efficient is it?

How long will it last?

How can we change it? 

WHAT NEXT

Can we share it?

Can It help people?

Can we sell it? 

Is it sustainable?

This is innovation : What possibilities do you see?

Who might be interested in this invention?

What Happens when an artist thinks like a scientist?

What Happens when an artist thinks like a scientist?

Here is a great example of artists and scientists working together - trans-disciplinary thinking and learning - innovation in action.

It is called the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project.

"Sometimes it takes an artist to show scientists what they’ve been missing."

Koen Vanmechelen is that artist. For the last 20 years he’s bred his own chickens as part of the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP). That might seem strange to you and me, but not to Koen. He mixes DNA the way other artists mix colors, and uses his chickens to demonstrate cultural and genetic diversity. Besides, chickens are one of the most common animals on the planet. There are 65 million of them. They produce 60 million tons of eggs that we use for everything from food to medicine production. That makes chickens “the most important animal in the world,” to Koen, as he told me over Skype. They never fail to surprise him: “Chickens are like a mirror for human culture,” he said. " from the following link

http://bigthink.com/…/what-happens-when-an-artist-thinks-li…

What do you notice?
Look closer - what patterns do you see? What connections can you make?
Use all of your senses?
What do you wonder? What does it make you think? What questions do you have?
How can you explore? What will you collect?
What is best idea to find out? How will you document what you find?
How will you share?
Who might be interested in what you found out?