STEM/Enrichment

During the Year 4, 5 & 6 summer catchup students will have the opportunity to engage in a number of STEM activities. Many of these activities you can also do at home.

Cross curricular Computing/ICT

Digital escape room

Digital escape room – read directions to find the way out of the digital escape room

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj-YLW8RjZDfYgeH5hs6T6b02BWINMpR2H70wPmmpwZ5ZhAw/viewform

other escape rooms can be found at:

https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/137828/digital-escape-rooms/

Poetry coding challenge

Self-directed series of coding challenges related to poetry from code.org

https://code.org/poetry

Unplugged computing activities

Alternative in the event of no internet access or no access to laptop/computer (this will need to be downloaded and printed)

https://code.org/files/Hour-of-Code-Unplugged-Activities.pdf

Math coding challenge

Self-directed coding challenge related to addition, subtraction and measuring from code.org

https://hourofcode.com/cmdodo

STEM Challenges

The following STEM challenges can be used in 45 minute-/1 hour sessions focusing on real life examples

STEM Challenge 1 – Newspaper Tower.docx

STEM Challenge 3 – Making Ice Cream.docx

STEM Challenge 2 – Marshmallow & Spaghetti Bridge.docx

STEM Challenge 4 – Paper plane investigation.docx

Summer Learning