Outdoor Garden
Staff Development
AKS for STEM
Sycamore Student Extras
STEM resources
100

This space is behind the gym, and was created by the graduating seniors 2021 seniors.

What is the GLOW garden?

100

For the last two years, the county has offered this professional development in phenomenon science specific to each grade level.

What is Ready, Set, Science?

100

This grade level built structures that could withstand natural disasters.

Who is first grade?

100

This STEM competition allows students to practice the scientific process at home in an area of science that interests them.

What is the science fair?

100

This county treasure box is where you find your science units, lessons, assessment questions, and so much more.

What is ECOMM?

200

This garden outside the kindergarten rooms is being supported by a grant from Captain Planet.

What is the Sycamore vegetable garden?

200

On May 7th, Georgia recognizes this special day in all schools.

What is Georgia STEM Day?

200

This grade level grew plants from seeds and measured their growth to help students see not only how to use measurement, but the different parts of the plants at various stages.

Who is second grade?

200

This STEM opportunity at Sycamore allows students to practice the engineering and design process at home by solving a real world problem of their choice.

What is the Invention Convention?

200
Within the school's science closet you can locate any material necessary for a science investigation.  The closet is located in this teacher's future space.  

Who is Ms. Stout?

300

Captain planet is supporting our work in the garden this year to help supply food to this place.

What is homes in our community?

300

During many of our professional developments based around STEM, we expressed the need of this diagram being consistent across all grade levels.

What is the Engineering and Design Process?

300

This grade level had students construct solar ovens and bake a marshmellow.

What is third grade?

300

Sycamore celebrates a STEM night each year to help to bring students and family together for fun interactive participation in the engineering and design process. This year it was given this special name because we connected it with literacy.

What is Once Upon a STEM night?

300

This space can be utilized by any grade level to investigate nature, and learn about plant growth.

What is the outdoor classroom?

400

There are this many areas in the outdoor garden that have beds.

What is 3?

400

This type of critical thinking in STEM is usually shortened to CER.

What is Claim, Evidence, Reasoning?

400

This grade level had students investigate flooding in the area and construct levees from various STEM closet materials.

What is 5th grade?

400

Each year a team for this competition meets weekly to build and program a robot through complex tasks.  The team also creates a solution to a problem that they determine in their community.  

What is First Lego League?

400

These resources located on the ECOMM science site provides teachers with questioning, and investigation templates to help with showing proof of acquisition of AKS.  

What is the science and engineering practices resources?

500

This plant that grows closet to the turn in the sidewalk at the top of the hill, attracts the most pollinators.

What is a milkweed?

500

This county professional development in July is to help prep teachers for science in the upcoming 2021-2022 school year.  Teachers can pick from two dates.

What is Science Institute?

500

This grade level made weather tools, and monitored the weather data for a month.

What is 4th grade?

500

This club was present for many years, and run by Ms. Carlan.  Students collected water bottles, and helped with our two gardens.  

What was the Sycamore Environmental Club?

500

This year-round environmental education and action organization supported at the county level works to reward schools that contribute to their community and foster learning of nature by hands on activities within the classroom.

What is Clean and Beautiful?

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