Lauren Swanson

Former Elementary Teacher 🍎 | 2018–19 TOY 🏆 | CHCCS Honor District TOY 🌟 | M.Ed. Science Specialist 🔬 | PhD Student @ NC State TELS 🎓

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

NC State students got hands-on with makerspace learning — exploring how to bring creativity and design thinking into their classrooms. One material. One task card. Endless possibilities! 🚀 #STEMEd #TeacherPrep

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We used reverse engineering and the engineering design process to design and build a self-propelled car. @NCStateCED

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

After reading "Iggy Peck, Architect," NC State Elementary Education juniors applied the engineering design process and documented their ideas in engineering notebooks as they worked to build the tallest tower using only index cards.

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

I’m featured on NC State’s College of Education website as an incoming graduate student. Check it out!

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[Ephesus Elementary @EphesusElem]

Family Fitness Night is finally here! We hope we'll see you tonight for lots of fun activities and tasty walking tacos! @chccs

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

A few more Paper Runs! Sometimes our runs didn’t work, so we had to go back to the design stage. This was a good reminder on how to learn from our mistakes. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We created paper ball runs with only paper and tape for our force and motion unit. Our goal was to make our ping pong ball move as slowly as possible. The slowest time was 15 seconds! This STEM activity was a great lesson in perseverance too. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We celebrated Pi day with fractions and art. Our Pi day artwork is made only from circles! We were able to create smaller fractions like ½, ¼, and ⅛ by cutting and folding our circles. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

More 3-D human body models! @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

Sneak peak of our 3-D Human Body System models! We used items such as paper towel rolls, yarn, cotton balls, straws, balloons, and plastic bottles to make the different parts of each body system. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

@EphesusElem We love origami club! For our winter theme, we made mittens, snowmen, and hats.

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We love Hands On Equations! We used manipulatives to learn algebraic linear equations. It's a fun introduction to middle school algebra. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We had so much fun supporting our community at the UNC game! Go Heels! @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We integrated information from several texts in order to create projects about biomes from around the world. We chose to share our information either through a poster or a google slides presentation. @EESDLandT @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We had fun celebrating our narratives by sharing them with our classmates! @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We have been working hard on our Marine Ecosystem Food Webs! We learned about the interdependence of plants and animals within their ecosystems. We also learned about negative human impact and how the removal of one species can change an entire food web. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We learned about the Levels of Organization in Ecology and then created models based on our Ecosystems research. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We worked in partners to tackle the math question "how can we figure out the volume of several boxes when we don't have enough cubes?" We came up with different strategies to determine how many units were needed to fill each box. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We created models to demonstrate our understanding of the water cycle. Models help us analyze and explain complicated processes. @EphesusElem

[Lauren Swanson @SwansonL16]

We had a lot of fun interpreting Growth Mindset quotes! Thank you for the template teachinginhighheels. @EphesusElem