STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)

Students in Years Prep-6 at WSPS currently have the opportunity to participate in a semester of dedicated specialist STEAM classes for one 50 minute session per week.

These classes take place outside the classroom in a dedicated STEAM lab with access to PCs, iPads, a Green Screen with a range of equipment for conducting science experiments. The school has an ever growing set of resources for learning with digital technologies including a range of class sets of robotics, engineering, physics, chemistry and biology activity sets.

STEAM classes are linked with the Science, Digital Technologies and Design and Technology outcomes of the Victorian Curriculum and give students an opportunity to demonstrate their creativity, ingenuity and use their maths skills in real life problem solving tasks. The STEAM classes are aligned to class Units of Inquiry where possible.

Typical class activities can include:

• Coding robots like Beebots, Dash Bots or Spheros.
• Creating designs to be 3D printed.
• Using Notebooks and iPads to discover different areas of Digital Technologies.
• Working with scientific procedures such as hypothesising, testing and recording data.
• Building, Engineering and Creating designs for different ‘Real World’ applications.
• Chemical/Earth Science and Human Body/Biological Science discoveries through Stand Alone Inquiries.