Inspire and prepare today’s pupils to become tomorrow’s innovators with STEM Projects.
The STEM Projects series provides opportunities for pupils to creatively apply skills and knowledge in a wide range of cross-curricular learning contexts. Although science is the subject area upon which most of the projects are based, other curricular areas (geography, mathematics, SPHE and visual arts) along with design and technology skills come into play in a cross-curricular fashion, depending on the project.
Each box is divided into four colour-coded sections:
The variety of projects contained within each section also allows them to be successfully incorporated into a cross-curricular approach to topic teaching.
The STEM Projects box for 6th Class contains:
Some ‘stand out’ projects include:
I recently got the new STEM cards from Prim-Ed and they are ideal for planning STEM challenges. They cover the different strands of the curriculum. There are lots of ideas to explore with your class which are outside of the topics covered in general text books. These cards are available from Infants to 6th class.
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