PBLs and STEM at SMMS

What does PBL Stand for?

• Project-Based Learning OR Problem-Based Learning

• Prototype Ballistic Language

• Peanut Butter Lunch

What do the letters in STEM stand for?

• Specific Technology Engineered for Me

• Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

• Space, Technology, Education, Math

What classes do you use your STEM journal in?

• Science

• All of them

• Social Studies

• Engineering

What STEM projects have you done this year?

• None.

• Design a Solar System, Moon Phases and Tides

• Everything we do in science

• What we do in math

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What's your year-long PBL focused on?

• Flooding

• Erosion

• Climate Change

• Coastal Hazards and Community Resilience

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

How have you used MATH in your PBL projects?

• We added fractions and decimals

• We multiplied fractions

• We divided fractions

• We recorded high and low tides and moon phases to see how moon phases affect tides using tables and line graphs.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Where is the science in your PBLs so far?

• I go to science class everyday

• I use science in my STEM Journal

• We used information about mass and gravity to design our own solar system.

• My science class is in Room 613.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What do you read in ELA that supports your PBL?

• Our teacher makes us read NewsELA

• We took an RI

• The novel, "Flush," ties in to our year-long PBL on Coastal Hazards and Community Resilience

• Our STEM Journals

What do you read in language arts to support your projects?

• Genre reading project

• Flush, and articles about space on NewsELA

• Library Books

What real-world problem are you trying to solve?

• How gravity affects solar systems.

• Pollution

• Sea level rise, flooding, and erosion caused by climate change.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4