Rita Thurston
@thurston220
K-5 STEM Teacher, lifelong learner, engineer, wife of engineer, and mother of 3 engineers
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21-08-2017 19:08:22
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So excited to kick off our joint STEM-Library 5th grade project on wind turbines today with an expert guest speaker who is an engineer in the field. And also one of our parents! So much great info was shared! #ColtPride #webelong @NBES220 Barrington 220 Elizabeth Nelson Becky Gill
Look at how Katy Michels 2nd grade class plans before building a model in STEM class. Such great collaboration!🤩 #ColtPride #webelong220 @NBES220 Barrington 220
So happy to be at Roslyn Road teaching STEM this year. Only one problem - bugs! That’s Hexbugs from our 3rd grade boot camp this week😄 Students did an awesome job building, redesigning and collaborating together! Roslyn Road Elementary Barrington 220 @stem220 Ty Gorman
Loved meeting Roslyn Road 1st grade engineers this week too!😍 Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson Ty Gorman
1st grade Civil Engineering bootcamp this week! Day 1: learning that technology does NOT have to be electrical or high tech and making a model of technology used by a community helpers. STEM tying in to classroom curriculum🤩 Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson
Super structures in our community by 1st grade civil engineers in STEM today!🤩 Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson
Sturdy bridges from Mrs. Dillon’s 1st grade civil engineers on the last day of bootcamp! #STEM Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson
Mrs. Hesselbein’s 1st graders met all the criteria and constraints of the bridge challenge in STEM🤩 Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson
Mrs. Perry’s 1st graders also rocked the Iggy Peck bridge challenge!🤩 Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson
2nd grade classes are rocking STEM simple machines bootcamp! Love seeing their collaboration skills improve as the week goes on🤩 Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson Barrington 220
1st grade is learning all about programming robots during STEM boot camp this week! ❤️🤖 Roslyn Road Elementary Elizabeth Nelson
Boyd, O’Connell & Pfister kindergarten classes are doing an AMAZING job learning about programming during their first ever STEM boot camp! We completed unplugged coding activities first - we program robots tomorrow!!❤️🤖 Roslyn Road Elementary Barrington 220 @stem220 #Unifiedfor50
Kindy DL bootcamp started today! Learning about programming by giving instructions to our partners❤️STEM Roslyn Road Elementary #Unifiedfor50
Loved working with Kindy DL classes this week! Programming, collaborating, whole body listening, robots and debugging. It was amazing to see what they could do❤️STEM Roslyn Road Elementary Barrington 220 #Unifiedfor50