Kindergartners + The Three Little Pigs = STEAM Project


The Three Little Pigs with some STEAM

Mrs. Dana Calderone, a Reading Specialist at Concord Elementary School, taught the letter "P" to her class of kindergartners last week. The students learned about the letter P by learning about pigs. After reading the story of "The Three Little Pigs" students were challenged to build a house the big, bad wolf couldn't blow down.
Students brainstormed ideas of what they could build their house out of, created blueprints of the houses they were to build  and got to work building.
 After two days, each student created a house and wrote about why they chose the materials they did to hopefully keep the wolf from blowing down his or her house.
On the last day, students tested their homes to see if the Big, Bad Wolf could blow their house down. Check it out, all the houses survived the wolf. To end this exciting experience, She used Green Screen for each child to tell his/her story of the "Three Little Pigs"


Building our homes from our blueprints




Testing our homes 







Comments

  1. محمد أبو معيلقApril 6, 2016 at 6:59 AM

    i love the idea but want to ask about writing step, could the kids in kindergarten to express their ideas in written?

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  2. AnonymousApril 6, 2016 at 10:41 AM

    Each student was able to write three sentences on their own to explain why they chose the materials they did.

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