STARBASE Louisiana

WHAM 5th grade students recently completed the week long STEM field trip to Louisiana STARBASE. This premier Department of Defense STEM program engages students through an inquiry-based curriculum with "hands-on, mind-on" experiential activities.  During the week, the students  study Newton's Laws and Bernoulli's principle; explore nanotechnology, navigation and mapping. They are captivated by engineering as they use the computer to design space stations, all-terrain vehicles, and submersibles.  Math is embedded throughout the curriculum and students use metric measurement, estimation, calculation geometry and data analysis to solve questions.  Teamwork is stressed as they work together to explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate concepts. Our students had a BLAST!