Tinkering and Talking Time: Social-Emotional Learning Through STEAM Exploration
Help me give my students the STEM Block Play and Tinkering Tools and Social-Emotional Library necessary for collaborative learning to ensure social-emotional development.
$420 goal
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What I love most about my students is their curiosity, their lack of inhibitions when it comes to exploring the real world. They are not worried about the outcome so much as the exploration involved in getting to the outcome. Most, if not all, of my students come from low-socioeconomic backgrounds. School is a safe place that they actually have opportunities to discover and explore while they learn to interact with each other.
What better way to focus on social-emotional development than through the collaborative opportunities given through STEAM learning.
Because I teach pre-Kindergarten most of my students have not been in a social environment with peers. The STEAM process incorporates the use of proper social skills needed for success and a lot of this is done through the collaborative and cooperative interaction and play.
My Project
The students will be able to go through the engineering process utilizing the STEM Early Learning Packs which allow for creative thinking and working through problems. The Social-Emotional Library will be used for discussion of how to work through the STEAM process while emphasizing the importance of sharing, taking turns, how to work through issues, and important listening skills.
Using the STEM Early Learning Block Play Kit and STEM Motion Kit, as well as the Social-Emotional Library pack and STEM Library Pack, the students will be learning to work collaboratively as they go through the STEAM process for engineering their projects, thus incorporating the social-emotional learning aspect while creating through cooperative learning and problem-solving.
Because reading aloud to Pre-K students is an important aspect of early reading skills, having books related to the STEAM concepts will give them a deeper understanding of how the process works.
The students are so innovative when given the most unconventional items to create with. When they learn to work together TRULY AMAZING things are sure to happen.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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