5th grade students checking the health of our worm 🪱 farm and finding eggs. Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools

5ths can design and complete a simple electric circuit at BG STEM Academy. Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools Snap Circuits

4th graders investigate sound in STEM lab with hanger bells, kazoos, and tuning forks. #LOVEBGSTEM Ball Ground STEM Academy Rebecca Heard Cherokee Co. Schools

Mary Marble Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools Snap Circuits This lesson has front-loaded so much of the information to help them with their ADI for conductors vs insulators this week! Both being inquiry-based! LOVE IT! Thank you for all you do to support standards-based STEM!

2nd graders shared their “amusement park rides” with classmates. It was precious to see the interest and enthusiasm of students as they listened to others sharing their ideas! #LOVEBGSTEM Ball Ground STEM Academy

When my 🪣 bucket is bone dry and I’m questioning is it worth it…this happens! Total bucket filler🥰. One of my kiddos secretly wrote this on my board yesterday. Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools

If you missed our Ball Ground STEM Academy STEM Schoolwide Open House this week...boy, you sure did miss a fun day of learning! Good news? Don't worry, I am sure that you will get to attend next year. Cherokee Co. Schools #LOVEBGSTEM

Calling all Blue Birds!Your new accommodations are ready for you Ball Ground STEM Academy Thanks to our STEM supporters from BG Garden Club who installed 2 Blue Bird houses for us. We’ll be waiting and watching! Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools

Lift, drag, thrust, gravity… how will these forces affect our paper airplanes?This week we followed the PSP up to creating. Next week we test, reflect,make improvements& share our learning.Watch out STEM students at work! Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools

2 ?s in STEM lab today. Why do birds lay eggs in spring? How do birds make 🪺 that protect their eggs? Ask a BGSA 1st grader! Ball Ground STEM Academy Rebecca Heard Cherokee Co. Schools

BGSA STEM’s own March Madness. Using the PSP to imagine, plan, & construct a BB goal for our tournament that starts next week!@RebeccaHeard12 Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools

What do magnets 🧲 attract? What do magnets repel? Do magnets not have any effect on certain materials? All ?s 1sties asked and answered in STEM lab this week. Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools Mrs. Marinelli

So extremely proud of our Science Olympiad Team today! Look at those medals 🏅!!! We are Ball Ground Indians!! Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools

Animals of the Piedmont region…opossums…friend or foe? After researching,2nds create posters with evidence and opinions. What’s your opinion? Do they deserve their bad rep?Rebecca Heard Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools

So proud of our BG Science Olympians! 2 groups placed in the top ten at the State Science Olympiad competition today. Ball Ground STEM Academy Rebecca Heard Cherokee Co. Schools

The Georgia Ag Experience mobile classroom came to BGSA this week! 5th Ss learned about seven Georgia commodities,importance of Ag education & Ag careers.Thank you Cherokee Co Georgia Farm Bureau for sponsoring!! Ball Ground STEM Academy Cherokee Co. Schools Rebecca Heard

Ball Ground Robotics Competition Day! Here we go New adventure for BG Cherokee Co. Schools Ball Ground STEM Academy Rebecca Heard VEX Robotics

Building our “feeder” robotics program in the Creekview zone! Thank you to Creekview High School TSA and Robotics Club for supporting our students as they learn and grow with robotics. creekview_high Cherokee Co. Schools Ball Ground STEM Academy Rebecca Heard

Celebrating Engineering Week this week with our engineer, Julie Bales. Can you design and build a bridge with 1 sheet of paper that will hold 40 pennies? Rebecca Heard Cherokee Co. Schools Ball Ground STEM Academy

Relevance+ fun =STEM learning today Ball Ground STEM Academy ! Our BG garden club presented info about pollinators,Monarch nurseries,Mason bee hotels,and lead students in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census, a real world scientific research project. Thx BGGC Rebecca Heard Cherokee Co. Schools