STEM school
Our school, Club Hill STEM Elementary, is one of GISD’s Innovative Schools of Choice.
Students in the STEM school have opportunities for hands-on learning and to participate in enrichment programs to explore various STEM challenges and activities.
Social emotional learning is a key component of the STEM school where students focus on values that will help shape their future: communication skills, collaboration, and problem-solving.
The STEM school provides students with a strong foundation to enter the modern 21st century workplace. Students that graduate from a STEM program are innovative, critical thinkers, able to apply the skills learned in the classroom to real-world situations. Our goal at Club Hill STEM is to prepare students for future successes, empowering and developing them at an early age to graduate ready for college, careers, and life in a global economy.
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What makes us unique?
Club Hill STEM provides STEM classes to students in Kindergarten through fifth grades. Students rotate through the following classes each grading cycle:
- STEM Lab: This is the robotics and coding classroom. Students will learn to code and program using coding games, physical activities, Beebots, Mouse robots, Wonder Dash, and Ozobots. They will also engineer robots using various robotics kits.
- Makerspace: This classroom focuses on the Engineering Design Process. Students will be completing a STEM project that connects to their classroom curriculum. They will also practice their engineering skills by completing STEM Challenges with various resources such as Legos, Magnetic tiles, Kinetix, blocks, and more.
- Technology Lab: Students will learn how to type by practicing their keyboarding skills using typing.com. Once they have demonstrated mastery of typing, they will work on computer programming using code.org.
- Science Lab: Students will conduct various experiments on a variety of phenomena and are given opportunities to think creatively, develop reasoning skills, and explain scientific facts and theories.