Kindergarten Teachers Incorporate More STEAM into Learning

By: Sam Harris

Here at French International School of Oregon, we get to take a deeper look into the kindergarteners STEAM projects. STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. Our school uses this project to help the students work with critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration. I spoke with one of the STEAM project teachers here to get more insight as to what exactly they are learning. Alice Beauvalet explained their project was emphasizing:“ reduce, reuse, recycle.” They recycled paper themselves to show how using less resources can create a better world and environment.

Alice the students to learn more about how their decisions can impact the environment on a global scale. She wants to further help them explore and understand how being better citizens to the world around them can start with something just as easy as recycling their papers, cupboards and hard plastics. Overall, Alice stated noticing the students already applying what they have learned in her class in their own lives, like recycling their papers and plastics without being asked, and going home to their families implying the idea of a compost bin in their houses. This project was a great way to incorporate real world issues to the kindergarteners in a fun and creative way they will remember. Our school emphasizes on teaching the students more about how they can impact the world and not only their lives but the lives around them. 

This article and photos are part of the eighth-grade communications class's media intern project, where students worked on a project for the French International Communications department.