Enrichment for All provides project-based STEM/ STEAM learning opportunities for all K-5 students around science, math and literacy curricula. All projects follow the engineering process.

What are 21st century skills? They consist of four critical areas for development: collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking. These provide a framework for learning by teaching the core social emotional skills needed to be successful in school, work and in life.

Project-based STEM/STEAM provides the ideal environment for learning and practicing these skills on a daily basis. K-5 teachers and I collaborate to identify topics on which to structure our projects.

Examples of projects include:

1st graders were challenged to use a variety of materials to create the safest house for their little pig - after reading several version of The Three Little Pigs - and put it to the test against the Big Bad Wolf (a hairdryer in a wolf costume).
3rd grader Westward Expansion STEM in which students were challenged to make temporary shelters, covered wagons and rafts to ford the river for our paper pioneers. We even tested our rafts with the covered wagons and pioneers on top on the open water in Robeson Park.
2nd grade focused their beginning of the year Enrichment on data collection and graphs which has supported their STEM in the classroom as they engineer better designs and test them.
Fifth grade teams will be challenged to design and create obstacles-using the engineering design probes and their knowledge of simple machines-for a mini golf hole. Together, a fully functional 18-hole miniature golf course will be created and shared with the school.

Robeson Elementary School