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Closing Out Summer Program With Fiction And Fun

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Photo courtesy of West Islip School District To close out the final week of the Summer Investigations program in West Islip School District at the end of July, the theme was fiction, fantasy, fairytales and folktales. Th​e students compared and contrasted the fairytale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and the fractured fairytale “Goatilocks and the […]
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Exploring Space And Inventions At Summer Investigations

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Photo courtesy of West Islip School District For the third week of the Summer Investigations elementary-aged program at Paul J. Bellew Elementary School in the West Islip School District, students learned all about space and innovation. During their Makerspace lessons, students used straws to construct their own inventions. In the STEM lab, students built their […]
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STEM And Literacy Combine For Paper-Making Lesson

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Photo courtesy of West Islip School District Students in Ms. Chizik’s first grade class at Paul J. Bellew Elementary School in the West Islip School District recently connected literacy and science lessons by learning how paper is made. The class began exploring the topic by reading “How to Make Paper” by Lior Klirs. Students then […]
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STEM Lab Studies Forces And Friction

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Photo courtesy of West Babylon School District During a recent STEM lab, third graders in Ms. DeLapi’s class at South Bay Elementary School in the West Babylon School District tested their knowledge of force. Students created a ramp using cardboard and books. Using a toy car, they raced them down the ramp and predicted how […]