The following documents present a range of activities that could be used for a STEAM trail on school grounds. Teachers are free to choose sections from a document that they wish to complete with their class. The child can think about and discuss the answers, draw or write the answers or record their responses using digital technology.
STEAM Trail/Rian ETIEM - Infant
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34624/34375.pdf Added: 19 Oct 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type:The PDST STEM team has created a document with a range of supporting activities that could be used in preparing, carrying out, and in helping your class to reflect on the STEM trail. Pupils will love the poem about the poor mouse that got lost in the deep dark woods.
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- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- observe growth and change in some living things
Strand: Energy & Forces
Strand unit: Sound
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- identify and name different colours
- observe colours in the local environment
- recognise and identify a variety of sounds in the environment
- sort objects into sets according to colour
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- Mathematics
Strand: Number
Strand unit: Counting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- count the number of objects in a set, 0-20
Strand: Early Maths Activities
Strand unit: Classifying
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- classify objects on the basis of one attribute, such as colour, shape, texture or size
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- Visual Arts
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- discover colour in the visual environment to help develop sensitivity to colour
STEAM Trail/Rian ETIEM - 1st & 2nd
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34622/34373.pdf Added: 19 Oct 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: ActivityExplore the school grounds with your STEM eyes on using these fun STEM trails developed by the PDST STEM team. These activities will encourage pupils to estimate, measure, solve, observe, and record.
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- 1-2
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare, measure and record length using non-standard units
- select and use appropriate non-standard measuring units and instruments
- solve and complete practical tasks and problems involving length
- 1-2
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become familiar with the life cycles of common plants and animals
- recognise that trees are plants
Strand: Energy & Forces
Strand unit: Sound
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- recognise and identify a variety of sounds in the environment
- 1-2
- Visual Arts
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- make imaginative structures
STEAM Trail/Rian ETIEM - 3rd & 4th
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34626/34377.pdf Added: 19 Oct 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: ActivityAn exciting STEM trail for 3rd and 4th class pupils to participate in on their school grounds. The PDST STEM team has a range of activities listed in this document to support teachers in planning, preparing pupils, carrying out the activities, and in reflecting on the activities.
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- 3-4
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare, measure and record lengths of a wide variety of objects using appropriate metric units (m, cm)
- estimate, compare, measure and record lengths of a wide variety of objects, using appropriate metric units, and selecting suitable instruments of measurement
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs, bar charts and bar-line graphs incorporating the scales 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, and 1:100
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Area
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare and measure the area of regular and irregular shapes
Strand: Shape & Space
Strand unit: Lines & Angles
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- classify angles as greater than, less than or equal to a right angle
- draw, discuss and describe intersecting lines and their angles
- identify, describe and classify oblique and perpendicular lines
- identify, describe and classify vertical, horizontal and parallel lines
- 3-4
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- discuss simple food chains
- investigate the factors that affect plant growth
- observe and explore some ways in which plant and animal behaviour is influenced by, or adapted to, environmental conditions
- observe, identify and investigate the animals and plants that live in local environments
- sort and group living things into sets according to observable features
- 3-4
- Visual Arts
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- look at and talk about his/her work, the work of other children and the work of artists
- 3-4
- Physical Education
Strand: Games
Strand unit: Creating and Playing Games
STEAM Trail/Rian ETIEM - 5th & 6th
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/34623/34374.pdf Added: 19 Oct 2020 Contributor: PDST Resource type: ActivityJoy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. These STEM trail activities encourage pupils to focus on the journey, not just the destination. Pupils will plan routes to their destination point, estimate distances, and use their STEM eyes to identify and record items/directions onto their school ground map. Pupils will also learn about the square metre and consider what's in their square metre.
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- 5-6
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Area
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- calculate area using acres and hectares
- calculate area using square centimetres and square metres
- compare visually square metres and square centimetres
Strand: Shape & Space
Strand unit: 2-D Shapes
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- use 2-D shapes and properties to solve problems
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Capacity
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate and measure capacity using appropriate metric units
- 5-6
- Visual Arts
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- discover pattern and rhythm in natural and manufactured objects
- express his/her imaginative life and interpret imaginative themes using colour expressively
- 5-6
- SESE Science
Strand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- group materials according to their properties and/or composition
- identify and investigate a widening range of common materials in the immediate environment
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of some of the basic life processes in animals and plants
- construct and use simple keys to identify locally occurring species of plants and animals
- identify the interrelationships and interdependence between plants and animals in local and other habitats
