STEAMcarts

STEAMCarts

Operation Pirate STEAMship STEAMcarts 
Reserve one today!

Besides our Collaboration Station, Craft Makerspace, GreenScreen and 3D printer, housed in the media center, we have several mobile maker carts for your use!

Each of the "STEAMcarts" listed below is NOW available for classroom, academic enrichment, or club checkout at Piedmont! We hope to expand our offerings with new materials and a summer program as the program expands and as budget allows. See the Research and Inspiration page or specific topic pages at left for ideas on how to use these carts. Note: some of these items are consumables, so check to make sure they are still available.

Design and Build STEAMcart
Contains:

• Lego bricks and sets
• Design paper
• Pencils
• Lego Engineering Ideas

Power Up Electronics STEAMcart
Contains:

• 1 Snap circuits deluxe set
• Snap Circuits Ideas
• Solar powered cell and wheel, holographic light toy
• Ultrasonicwater foggerhttp://www.buzzle.com/articles/ultrasonic-fogger-how-does-it-work.html (and if you are feeling very ambitious you can use the waterfogger and a wiimote to make an interactive hologram http://www.cs.rit.edu/~rjb/RITcourses/20111/MS%20Seminar/sample%20theses/Sean_Janis_Masters_Thesis.pdf)
• MindFlex "move a ball with the power of your mind" kit
• Mythbusters Weird World of Water kit
• Water Tornado bottle

Creativity and Relaxation STEAMcart
Contains:

• Biofeedback set and CDrom
• Geometric coloring designs
• Student Relaxation Site http://www.totallystressedout.com/
• 12 Blank leather-bound journals and color pencils
• Stress balls, play magnets, aroma kits, brain puzzlers.
• Mozart and Bach cd's (although any music will work)

Visual Arts STEAMcart: 
Contains various art supplies and resources for connecting Science Math Tech and art including:

• Paint, Glitter, Clay
• Paper, various sizes and shapes and colors
• Newsprint
• Gallon of glue
• Blue green gray white red
• String, Plastic, Wax
• Colored pencils, markers, crayons
• Scissors,Glue sticks
• Beads, Feathers
• Stickers, Stencils, Glitter
• Flour, salt
• Symbols book
• Color wonders app,

Tech Theater: Photography and Videography STEAMcart
Contains:

• Video slapboard
• How to Book
• How to Videos http://video.klutz.com/animation/
• Various cameras- video and still (students may also use their phones and BYOT devices)
• Paper and markers for paper slide videos
• 37 beanie babies for puppet theater or stop motion videos
• lego bricks and figures for stop motion videos
• How to Make RSA animate Style Videos
• Goal Setting, Goal Achieving, and Bulldog puppets
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FABRICation Cart

• Real Sewing machine
• fabric
• Thread
• basic sewing instructions

Logical, Critical, Mathematical, and Scientific Thinking STEAMcart
Contains:

• 10 Most Common Scams
• Sample real scams to analyze- hard copies and online
• Logical Fallacies Poster
• Interactive explanation of the most common logical fallacies
• Mythbusters trivia game (400 brain busting questions and one crash test dummy)
• Bad Science in the Real World
• How to Separate Fact from Fiction Online
• UV Crime Detection Kit
• Games, Cribbage, (Tangrams) Tangoes Geometric Shapes Game, Clue Guessing Game, 20q logic guessing algorythm, playing cards,
• Books: Infinity in Your Pocket: 3,000 Facts, Formulae and Theorems, Pocket Science , The Way Things Work, Everything's An Argument, Ignoble Prizes, 5 Minute Mysteries, Brain Quest quiz cards, Mensa Secret Codes for Kids,
• Related Sites:
• https://diy.org/skills/n00b logic including making an abacus.
• http://youarenotsosmart.com/
• puzzle site http://www.smart-kit.com/
• Six Critical thinking Skills Explained with Practice Links

Geo STEAMcart
Contains:

• Earthsearch Kids Geography Museum in a Book
• Explorabook Kids Science Museum in a Book
• Don't Know Much about Geography
• Geocaching equipment
  • instructions from www.geocaching.com
  • Plastic cases, tape, sharpies, toys for geocaches

Physics of Movement STEAMcart
Contains:

• Balls
• How to Juggle Klutz book
• Jump ropes - Jumprope Physics http://youtu.be/OsSCAihwp0Q
• Fun Physics activities for kids http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/fun-physics-activities-for-kids.htm
• Design an Amusement Park Ride or Playground equipment
  • http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/physics-playground
• Outdoor Physics Fun activities http://www.education.com/slideshow/outdoor-physics-fun/
  • Coming soon? Phun download
  • http://boingboing.net/2008/02/20/phun-a-simulated-phy.html

Music Math STEAMcart
Contains:

• 30 CD's and Jewel cases
• paper for case design
• Audacity program on school computers
• use with music making and recording apps available on ipad or desktops

iPad Carts 
Our iPads are equipped with STEAM apps and can be used in conjunction with any of the other "STEAMcarts" above to augment the STEAM experience with apps and webtools specific to each STEAMcart theme.
Contains:

• 10 ipads per cart equipped with STEM apps www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/12/a-list-of-all-best-ipad-apps-teachers.html?m=0
• Teachers sign up for these at the Online Technology Reservations Signup Genius. See Ms. Gurthie for specific app or webtool suggestions.

STEAMcart Roulette

• Can't Decide? Ms Gurthie will show up to your room with a cart and skills based lesson of her choice to go along with the current curriculum unit you are studying.

More Carts Coming Soon?
Keep thinking and planning because we hope to purchase some more materials for our Operation STEAMship program like:

• More STEAM apps
• Laptops for program downloads
• 3Dprinter
• Lego Mindstorms (our lego program is not currently available via cart)
• K'nex builder sets
• Ardrino
• Raspberry Pi
• Electronic fashion kits
• Other - contact Ms. Gurthie to make requests for other materials.