On Thursday August 5th, a reporter from the Trenton Times came to observe the Future Engineers all girls group. Many of the girls were interviewed for the article, and a photographer from the paper captured the girls working, and finally crashing their mag-lev cars. The article was featured on Friday, ...
Spending the Summer with Our Future Engineers
Thanks for continuing to follow my blog and letting me share my classroom experiences with you. This Summer, I’d like to take you away from my usual location at Gateway High School, and direct you to a new set of students and activities ...
An Edible STEM Arrangement
During the second and third week of camp, we began to introduce tools and machines. We wanted to give students a simple modeling project that would ease them into their use of the equipment and our safety rules and procedures.
Our design challenge was to brainstorm an innovative ...
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On the first day of camp, the girls were given various creative materials to craft a large nametag for themselves.
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One of the first lessons that Mr. Anderson taught our campers was the importance of drawing an accurate model. He stressed the importance of using a ruler in order ...
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Classroom Close-up, NJ, will be visiting Camp Sacajawea in Newfield, NJ on May 08, 2010 to tape a story entitled Envirothon, featuring students from Gateway Regional H.S.
The show will air Monday at 7p.m. and Saturday at 9a.m. on (NJN), Nov 29, Dec 4, Jan 3, ...
Kourtney Burris, recent graduate from TCNJ Department of Education has been working with students in the Honduras. She remembered an Design engineering activity building towers from newspapers that she thought the children might enjoy as their science project. She learned this in Prof Burroughs' Math / Science / Technology science ...
July 1st 2009
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As part of their field experience with learning the methods of teaching science to elementary children, students from Ms. Burroughs’ MST 202 course visited a pre-K school in Trenton to work with 3 and 4 year olds learning physics and chemistry concepts. The children were enthusiastic participants in lessons designed ...
July 1st 2009
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If you think insects are yucky, ask Ms. Posner’s second grade class at Franklin elementary school what they think! These mealworms provided the children with endless opportunities to investigate behaviors, size, responses to smell and touch and a wonderful chance to interact personally through touch and sight with safe and ...
July 1st 2009
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Teachers Enrique Riveras and Jeff MacCleod of Dunn Middle School thought it would be a great idea for their science students to experience the careful dissection of fetal pigs. They called upon Ms. Burroughs, science methods instructor, for some expertise in instructing the students on the proper use of dissecting ...
July 1st 2009
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The College of New Jersey sponsored a series of workshops and presentations to introduce employee children to the wonderful activities and teaching skills available at the college. Professor Burroughs was asked to present her workshop on forensic analysis of bones for young children. Those who attended were presented with skeletons ...
Teach Green Blog – Chris Anderson
