STEM Education in Northside ISD
Northside ISD’s STEM Education program provides students with hands-on, real-world learning experiences that integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Through inquiry-based instruction, problem solving, and design thinking, students develop critical thinking and collaboration skills that prepare them for future academic and career success.
At the elementary level, each campus has a dedicated STEM lab where students participate in activities and design challenges that spark curiosity and creativity using knowledge from classroom instruction and tied to a variety of STEM careers.
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Welcome to the Fernandez STEM Lab!
During our STEM Lab rotation, every student is a maker, designer, programmer, engineer, and many other things. The possibilities here are endless, and every student is encouraged to dream big in terms of what they can accomplish. During many units, classes are given a challenge that is to be accomplished using the NISD Engineering Process: Ask, Imagine, Create, Collaborate, Improve. This cycle is one that we hope to instill in students so that they may grow to use such a process in their future careers as problem solvers. Materials are sometimes intentionally limited, and parameters are given, but students are taught to work as a team in order to accomplish their tasks in the most efficient and innovative manner possible. Other units that our classes will experience involve hands-on challenges with technology. In STEM Lab, students will learn to program, code, and design in a way that builds an understanding of what the "robots" in our life do for our communities. Most importantly, our Fernandez Bulldogs will grow an understanding and appreciation for the engineering that affects our world so that they too can one day leave their mark in an innovative way!
