STEM Lab
Welcome to the STEM Lab!
This is where your Cougar learns the skills to be a digital age learner. We’re especially focused on being empowered learners, digital citizens, innovative designers, and computational thinkers. What does that mean?
- Empowered Learner: I use technology to take an active role in my learning.
- Digital Citizen: I manage my digital identity in a safe, positive, and proactive way.
- Innovative Designer: I use a variety of technologies to design and create.
- Computational Thinker: I understand sequences and use them to develop solutions to problems.
Digital citizenship is the big focus at the start of the school year. Our district STEM teachers use select lessons from Common Sense Education to teach these skills. Common Sense helps kids learn the habits and skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly in school, at home, and beyond.
What is digital citizenship? Kids today may seem like experts at using technology, but the digital world requires all kinds of skills and habits that kids don’t just pick up as they go. Digital citizenship helps them learn those skills. The lessons help kids in grades K–2 develop healthy media habits and learn how to be safe online. Lessons for kids in grades 3–5 continue to focus on screen time and online safety. Older kids also learn about how to recognize cyberbullying and what is or isn’t OK to share online.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Working together, we can prepare today’s kids to think critically and use tech in positive, creative, and powerful ways.
