STEM in Waterloo Schools

Waterloo Community School District teachers, staff, and students are engaged in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)!

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ALL Waterloo 3rd grade students are beginning LEGO League Explore in their classrooms! They are learning about energy, energy storage, coding, and collaborating as a team. Students at Cunningham & Highland students are building the wind turbine! #bebold @WaterlooSchools

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Waterloo PreK students are learning about electricity as they use modeling dough, batteries, and LED's to make Squishy Circuits. Take a look at the learning happening in Ms. Kipp's class at Kittrell and Ms. Jenny's class at Lowell!#STEMintheclassroom #bebold @WaterlooSchools

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The LEGO Explore Unit is fun for ALL! UNI students, Miss Arnold and Mr. Bergmann, will be spending time in 3rd grade classes at Highland Elementary. To help them prepare, they built the wind turbine that students will be working on during lessons! @WaterlooSchools

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Sergeant Monroe visited Orange Elementary 5th grade students to demonstrate and discuss how police officers use drones! @WaterlooSchools #STEMintheclassroom #dronesarestillcool

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5th grade students at Becker Elementary are jumping right into their first science unit of the school year: Whirligigs! They are learning about gravity, a fair test, analyzing data, and using evidence to support a claim. #bebold #STEM @WaterlooSchools

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The FIRST LEGO League Explore materials for ALL 3rd and 4th grade classrooms arrived! 200 SPIKE coding kits and Superpowered Explore kits! Check back later to see students in action as they collaborate, code, learn about energy, problem solve, and so much more! @WaterlooSchools

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We are thrilled to be back for a school year full of wonder, learning, and exploring! During the summer, teachers explored coding with SPIKE, the Cubetto robot, Finch Robots, drones, and so much more. We can't wait to share and learn with all students! @WaterlooSchools #BeBold

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💚💙💜We love to see Waterloo Schools students engaged in STEM learning! Check out just a few of the things East High students did during the 2021-2022 school year. Looking forward to all the learning they will do in the coming school year! @WaterlooSchools

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👩🏾‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬🧪Take a look at the tests students at East High School are conducting! These students were testing water for high levels of nitrates and phosphates. @WaterlooSchools

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🧡🖤East High students engaged in learning about cell membranes. The students experimented with bubbles to model cell membranes! @WaterlooSchools

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Lowell Elementary students created paper circuits during art class! A paper circuit is a functioning electronic circuit built on a paper surface. @WaterlooSchools

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Kingsley Elementary 1st graders wrapped up their Social Studies/Arts Integration Unit with guest Teaching Artist Angela Waseskuk! After deeply observing photographs from classrooms in the past, they created artwork to demonstrate what schools were like long ago.@WaterlooSchools

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Waterloo Schools is piloting a Teaching Artist program where professional artists are trained in house to enrich current instruction with art. Learn more here... https://t.co/KtwIZCqH6L #WaterlooProud

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Highland Elementary hosted a Math/STEM Family Night! Everyone enjoyed a variety of math and STEM activities such as coding LEGO builds, ST math, math fact jenga,
creating structures with toothpicks and marshmallows, tangrams, and paper airplane contests. @WaterlooSchools

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Lou Henry 3rd grade students held their FIRST LEGO League Expo! Teams shared all they learned about transporting cargo & did an amazing job building & coding! Check out all they built and programmed: airplanes, ziplines, carousels, Ferris wheels, & so much more!@WaterlooSchools

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3rd grade students at Highland Elementary are learning how to improvise in their music class with Mrs. Lyons! Checkout their skills! @WaterlooSchools

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Kingsley 1st grade students are engaged in a Social Studies Arts Integration experience with Teaching Artist Angela Waseskuk! They are comparing their school to schools in the past while also engaging in visual elements, emotions, deep observation and much more! @WaterlooSchools

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🏘🏢🏫Lowell Elementary School students built structures using various cardboard materials in art class! Check out some ideas they had for making structures stable. We love to see our students learning by doing. STEAM in @WaterlooSchools.

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🔦💡Students at Orange Elementary spent some time discovering LIGHT & SHADOW in art class! STEAM in Action in @WaterlooSchools.

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💜💛University of Northern Iowa Summer Camps are posted! Camp options for K-12! The camp list is available at https://t.co/sZWKr6tJAh. UNI has camperships available to assist area youth in participating in the 3 STEM camps. @WaterlooSchools