Instead of teaching these four areas of learning as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into one cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications. If you are a student that enjoys discovering new things, solving problems, learning how things work, applying creative thinking, designing plans, building structures then you already have some of the main qualities of a STEM a STEM learner.

At P.S. 174, William Sidney Mount the students are provided with the opportunity to develop a solid foundation in the ever growing and changing world of STEM. Some areas include:

Students will:

• Conduct investigations to test if different types of mater can exist as both a solid and a liquid

• Identify that temperature is the key to solids and liquids changing states

Students will:

• Collect evidence that vibrating objects create sound and that sound can make objects vibrate

• Discover that sound travels in waves that are invisible to our eyes and that sound requires some form of matter to travel through

Students will:

• Identify the internal structure of solids, liquids and gases that allows them to behave as such

• Design a model of the structures of solids, liquids and gases

• Classify and describe different types of matter based on their properties

Students will:

• Investigate the relationship between balanced objects and unbalanced objects

• Draw conclusions on the importance of balance

• Discover that forces like friction and gravity play a role on balance

• Locate the center of gravity within objects

Students will:

• Examine the relationship between the speed of an object to the energy that that object holds

• Develop an understanding between kinetic energy and potential energy

• Determine that energy can be transferred from one object to another • Gain an understanding of Newtons Laws of Motion

Students will:

• Conduct investigations that help them understand that matter is made of small particles that they cannot always view

• Identify that air pressure/gas can be used as a force/propellant using rocket designs

• Identify that solid matter that is seen and held can be dissolved into smaller pieces of matter that are no longer viewable with the eye