Grade 3. students

This STEAM challenge is an adapted version of “How Does Precipitation Sound?” designed to explore changes in the states of matter. The structure of the programs is identical. Both combine science and the arts. In both, the first module focuses on exploring artistic concepts. In the first case, the artistic components are sounds and music; in this version, they are, naturally, movement. We look at the material and observe the movement of the particles. This is followed by the natural science stage, when the student becomes familiar with the scientific content itself – which, in the first case, is precipitation,…

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This 4 stages, minimum 3 hours STEAM program for 3rd-grade students explores how to clean dirty water using natural materials like sand, gravel, and charcoal. Students develop critical thinking by making guesses and testing which material layers filter the water most effectively. Teams practice problem-solving and design thinking skills by building their own models and fixing designs that do not work at first. The activity builds collaboration and a sense of wonder as students work together to find solutions for a global environmental problem. Through planning, experimentation, observation, and reflection, learners experience how design thinking and scientific reasoning can be…

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During this 3-hour STEAM program, 3rd graders go through 7 stages to design a robot that understands and responds to human emotions. The project builds emotional awareness as kids learn to identify feelings in others and choose kind ways to respond. The journey begins with an emotion circle and scenario discussions to develop empathy and social awareness. Working in small groups helps students practice empathy and cooperative problem-solving while tackling social challenges together. In the Planning the Robot Response stage, students use IF-THEN logic to code caring responses, which builds both empathy and emotional awareness, regulation and communication.  Next, teams…

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During the 200-minute STEAM programme, 3rd graders will develop creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, resilience, valuing people, curiosity, a sense of wonder and openness through 7 phases of building spaghetti and marshmallow pyramids. The activity develops these skills while students create models of pyramids and identify points, lines and angles. Teams practice problem solving, as well as evaluating others’ ideas and being open to them by designing stable structures within strict quantitative constraints to avoid wasting resources. Through two tests of construction (prototyping, evaluation and improvement), learners strengthen their resilience and flexibility by adjusting their designs in case of structures…

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This 3-hour STEAM program for 3rd graders has 3 stages that develop the SPIRIT skills of the students by combining the science of weather with the art of music. In the first stage, students practice creativity and critical thinking by exploring how to make loud and soft sounds using everyday materials and instruments. The second stage encourages curiosity and a sense of wonder as children learn to identify different forms of precipitation, such as rain, snow, and hail. In the final stage, teams use creativity again to perform “sound stories” that imitate specific weather scenarios, like a soft drizzle or…

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This 3-hour STEAM program develops 3rd graders’ SPRIT skills through 2 stages of a combination of art with science and maker pedagogy through the theme of a hot air balloon (interesting physical object) found in a piece of artwork by a well-known artist. In the first stage, children look at paintings by famous artists. Their flexibility is developed by listening to their classmates’ different ideas about what the artist was thinking. In the second stage, students build a hot air balloon/or any interesting items using simple materials such as egg cartons and foam while the problem-solving valuing others, creativity and…

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