Ignite Young Minds with STEAMstart!

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Together, We Can Empower Your Child to Explore the Wonders of STEM.

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) with our engaging and interactive STEAMstart Elementary Camp programs. Designed for budding innovators, our hands-on activities and online asynchronous camps offer flexible learning experiences that inspire creativity and critical thinking.
Join us for a season of discovery and fun, and watch your child thrive in a world of endless

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Your location can access the entire content of the Academy 
 for one annual fee of $250 with 50 site simultaneous logins.

Choose from 8 Thematic STEAM Camps and Curriculums 
Included in ONE Annual Site License

ONLY $250 

"Perfect for teams: up to 50 users can log in simultaneously from one site!"

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Enhance Your Summer Camp Experience with STEAMstart K-4 
  1. Reorder materials kits when you need to replenish them.
  2. We make planning easy with agendas for multiple options.
  3. Run your camp an hour a day online or full days for the whole summer.  
  4. Train online with webinars or use the videos included in your camp. 

All Camps Include:

  • Materials Kits are Available for each Unit
  • MindBugs in Measurement Printable Activity Guides
  • Assessments
  • Standards-Based Correlations
  • Agendas, Scope, and Sequence with Multiple Options
  • STEAM and STEM Focused Engineering Design Challenges
  • Video Intros for Students and How To Videos for Instructors
  • Blended Learning Web Camps Are Also Available for Most Camp Units!


ONLY $250

"Site licenses give access for up to 50 simultaneous users at a single location!"

MAKE CAMP PLANNING EASY IN 2024

SAMPLE Unit Lessons and Design Projects

 

Build a solid foundation for academic success with literacy and numeracy connections, multiple representations, and problem-solving with STEAMstart for early grades. Students become engineering design teams solving challenges with the engineering design cycle. Asking questions, investigating concepts, dreaming, drawing, building, testing, and redesigning build a growth mindset and reasonableness in problem-solving. Along the way, develop literacy connections with stories, measure, count, and use data to make decisions.

STEAMstart K-2 and K-4 Camp Options Include:

  • Individual STEAMvestigations - Digital Downloads
  • 5 - 10 Day STEAMstart Challenge Units - Digital Downloads
  • STEAMstart K-4 PressPlay Online Blended Learning Camps
  • STEAMstart Materials Kits for Camps, Clubs, and Classrooms
  • MINDBUGS AND SCALEVILLE

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A MindBug begins life as a simple misconception but grows rapidly out of control. Debug student learning with fun activities, skill builders, and multiple representations. Change the way kids interact with numbers using math games and math tools.

MindBugs in Numeracy

Students who recognize patterns are well on their way to conceptual grounding in mathematics. Like measurement tools, seeing patterns in numbers will facilitate transfer because students don’t have to memorize procedures to "get the right answer".

  • Abacus: Counting, Large Numbers, Place Value & Base Ten
  • Number Sliders: Add & Subtract with Number Slides
  • Patterns: Multiplication Games
  • Napier's Bones: An New (Old) Way to Understand 

MindBugs in Measurement

Measurement is a foundation of all scientific endeavors;  understanding measurement is crucial to a student’s success. These everyday tools facilitate knowledge transfer because students see stopwatches on soccer fields and weigh scales in grocery stores. 

  • Tape Measures: distance, length, fractions, decimals, units
  • Digital Timers: elapsed time, place value, rounding
  • Digital Scales: weight, density, decimals, units 
  • Thermometers: Fahrenheit and Celsius

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SCALEVILLE: BUILD A WORLD OF SIZE AND SCALE

Focus on instilling a sense of size and scale for problem-solving reasonableness. How reasonable is the answer to a challenging word problem? Daily starters (often used weekly) help students and educators build a world of numbers.  Start with measures of self, progress to greater scales, powers of ten, and metric and measures outside our physical world (micro/macro).
Kindergarten: Start with measures of self. How tall am I? How far can I jump? 
Grades 1&2: Estimate. Measure. Scale up by 10x.
Grades 3 & 4: Estimate. Measure. Scale. Distance, circumference & speed.
Grades 5 & 6: Estimate. Measure. Scale. Powers of Ten.
Grades 7 & 8: Estimate macro and micro distance and size.
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ONLY $250 

Our site license supports 50 concurrent logins at a single location!

MAKE CAMP PLANNING EASY IN 2024