STEM Labs that can be done at little or no cost

In the classroom of today there are vast amounts of activities that can be done if there are funds available. This session will focus on how a unit on building paper airplanes can be used to have students fully engaged in the STEM principle by reviewing what concepts make the plane fly, video analysis of the plane’s flight, developing engineering improvements to make it fly further, and the use of mathematical approaches to determine if improvements in fact have been significant. During this session participants will build their own planes and run through a series of improvements based upon the principles of the scientific method. Other examples of project based, low cost, STEM activities will be discussed and participants will be encouraged to share ideas with others that they are using and meeting success with in their classrooms