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One quote that stuck out to me from reading the paper Unravelling STEM, is the one from Vasquez, Comer, & Sneider 2013 – about how STEM education must be an integrated approach, with real world learning experiences. Too often as teacher it’s easy to slide into a routine of demonstrating things to students, or ensuring that their tasks are always successful. The learning comes from experimentation, and failing, and trying again. I always tell the children I teach that astronauts didn’t get to the moon on the first try, they had to fail multiple times – and so if their art/science/ geography task fails in outcome that’s okay, the learning was in the process.
After looking at the two different activities I think that they would be very useful to do in collaboration with an older class. I am teaching Second class this year and I think both activities would be great to team up with Fifth or Sixth class and work together on.