Starting STEM Early

Instead of having my students work on papers or worksheets when they come into our classroom each morning, I have them use STEM boxes.  These boxes help my students develop critical thinking and problem solving skills.

1

My students loved using these boxes so much that they would race down the hallway each morning to grab their favorite one!  Read all about them here and get your own supplies to create some! 🙂

 

11

EDITED TO ADD: You can download the labels for these STEM Boxes here. 🙂

kristenblogsignature

About Kristen Poindexter

I am the 2014 National Shell Science Teacher, 2014 PAEMST Awardee for Science, and a Kindergarten teacher who blogs about my adventures in teaching!

Posted on July 6, 2017, in Oriental Trading Company, Uncategorized and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.

  1. Kristen,
    Do you have the labels for your STEM bins? I would like to have them or possibly a blank template where I can make my own?
    Thank you
    Lisa

    Like

  2. Diana Curtis

    Hi Kristen,

    Love this post about your STEM boxes! Are you able to share your labels? They are so clear & clean looking!

    Thank you,

    Diana Curtis

    On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Kristen’s Kindergarten wrote:

    > Kristen Poindexter posted: “Instead of having my students work on papers > or worksheets when they come into our classroom each morning, I have them > use STEM boxes. These boxes help my students develop critical thinking and > problem solving skills. My students loved using these box” >

    Like

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: