STEAM Week 2024
Grade 4 students were not brooding with their brooders, they were EGGstatic!
Grade 4 students were not brooding with their brooders, they were EGGstatic!
Using the 5 step Design Thinking Process, students embark on an exciting journey to learn about the life cycle of chicks and the responsibility of caring for living creatures.
They begin with EMPATHY to discover the needs of a newly hatched chick and define a problem to solve in how to care for them.
They move on to IDEATE in which they draw and design a model of a brooder that includes a legend for measurement conversion.
They move on to PROTOTYPE by building a brooder from recycled materials based on their drawn designs and then TEST their prototype to ensure it meets the necessary temperature for the chicks. They collect and analyze data related to time and temperature and create digital graphs to display their findings.
Students utilize all six of our CRITICAL SKILLS through this project by COLLABORATING in teams, demonstrating PROBLEM SOLVING in engineering, CRITICAL THINKING in analyzing data, DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP while researching, COMMUNICATION as a team and also through sharing their learning at the end of the project, CREATIVITY and ADAPTABILITY through designing and building prototypes, and CULTURAL COMPETENCY by understanding the role chickens play in Hawaii’s environment and as a sustainable food option.
This project integrates their Biblical worldview, emphasizing MALAMA (caring for God’s creation) and KULEANA (our responsibility for God’s creation) as students take ownership of nurturing new life.
