McNabb STEAM Lab and Activities

We’re back for 2024-2025!

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What's Up: March 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA What are some skywatching highlights in March 2024?Jupiter plows through the Pleiades on March 14, a chance to spot Mercury at month's end along with a subtl...

It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve your children in STEAM.

Here's a copy of the 23-24 School year calendar for parents and students. We're looking forward to seeing you in August!

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What's Up: June 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA What are some skywatching highlights in June 2023?Mars and Venus draw closer throughout the month, while Saturn leads Jupiter into the morning sky. Bright st...

4th grade STEAM lab will be growing and showing what they know this week in hands on science standards centers. The winning team from each class will have a special snack reward for the most correct answers. Turn that brain power all the way up 4th grade!

4th grade STEAM Club digging into the earth to see what we discover.

Learning properties of materials? Child’s play for 2nd Grade! We enjoyed engineering our hats for the sun again!!!

Learning properties of materials? Child’s play for 2nd Grade! We enjoyed engineering our hats for the sun.

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What's Up: February 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA What are some skywatching highlights in February 2023?See Jupiter and Venus appear nearer each night, as they head for a close conjunction at the start of Ma...

If you can make it up extra early tomorrow morning, you'll get to see a total lunar eclipse! Since the Earth's shadow will cause the moon to appear a reddish color, some call this a "blood moon". And since this month's full moon is sometimes referred to as the "beaver moon", some are calling this eclipse a "Beaver Blood Moon". Creepy sounding! But I can assure you that no beavers or blood is actually involved! 🙃

5th graders decided to have fun in the field, healthy harvesting for us all!

We had so much fun together harvesting great greens!

The power of pollination! 3rd grade had a splendid time in the lab modeling the movement of pollen between flowers. These busy bees were awesome!

STEAM club for 4th and 5th grade is back with a bang! We did quite well trying a physics experiment to explode a watermelon with rubber bands. We had some splitting and swelling but when time ran out, we just enjoyed the sweet treat.

Spot the International Space Station Time: Thu Sep 15 7:44 PM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 54°, Appears: 10° above SW, Disappears: 10° above ENE

Spot the International Space Station Time: Wed Sep 14 8:32 PM, Visible: 4 min, Max Height: 77°, Appears: 10° above SW, Disappears: 42° above NE

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How to Raise Smarter Children | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Goalcast World-renowned cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson shares one profoundly simple piece of parenting advice about a child's innate desire for exploration.A big tha...

Tomorrow morning folks! Power up for blast off!

After School Programs are open for sign-ups! This flyer came home with students on Friday and we are filling up FAST! Remember, transportation is NOT available for these programs! 💙🌪💙

Sometimes the lab is my home outside. Photos for future lesson reference. 🥰🌻🦟

‼️‼‼ FINAL REVEAL ‼️‼️‼️
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Our new, out-of-this-world program for 5th - 7th grade students is called STEM Squad!! Please take a look below at the details about this very unique opportunity!

This program does have an application process which begins this coming Monday, August 15 and goes through Wednesday, August 31. Applications will be reviewed by a committee of CLC staff, board members and community members. The thirty available spots will be awarded based on the strength and thoroughness of the applications.

Application link will be live 8.15.22 through 8.31.22:
https://westkentucky.formstack.com/forms/stem_squad_application
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STEM Squad Details

In an effort to expose students to more NASA education programming, the Challenger Learning Center at Paducah (CLC) has received a TEAMII-CAAT grant award. This award designates the CLC as a NASA Community Anchor. The award has enabled the CLC to create a program targeting students in 5th -7th grades- Challenger STEM Squad. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. These students will be introduced to various NASA educational themes, programs and STEM curriculum.

Challenger STEM Squad members will be required to attend monthly meetings called Squad Summits (one virtual/one in-person, monthly) October 2022 through May 2023. Virtual meetings will be held from 4:15 - 4:45 p.m. and in-person meetings will be held from 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. at the CLC. NASA themes will change monthly. Squad Summits will include hands-on STEM lessons, NASA speakers, information and other thematic activities. In the summer of 2023 participants will choose a project to work on and present this project in August 2023 to the Squad. If all requirements of assignments and attendance are met, members will attend the US Space & Rocket Center's Space Camp Titan Program in September 2023. After completion of the Titan Program, alumni will share out their experiences and be looked upon as leaders in STEM at the CLC. Alumni will be given opportunities to volunteer, help prepare for programs and other opportunities as they arise.

Open a pumpkin, add a little soil and water, and watch the seeds which are already inside the pumpkin grow! This would be so fun to do with kids!
source: https://www.growinginprek.com/apps/blog/show/9483735

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Summer's last supermoon and meteor shower take the celestial stage tonight Here's when and how to see the sturgeon supermoon and the Perseid meteor shower, the last supermoon and meteor shower of the summer.

“Specials” teachers are Stonger Together in 2022-2023!

Spot the International Space Station Time: Fri Jul 15 8:51 PM, Visible: 7 min, Max Height: 60°, Appears: 10° above WSW, Disappears: 10° above NE