Writing Ideas from the MnSTA Science Conference

Writing Ideas from the MnSTA Science Conference

By Carole Velasquez

At the MnSTA conference, I attended a session called “Do It, Write It:  Integrating hands-on experiments with great stories and kids’ writing.”  It reaffirmed the work we are doing here are Cedar Park around STEM and integrating lessons throughout our day.  I walked away with some ideas that I plan on incorporating around writing and science.

Here are those ideas:

• Do It:  Paper Chromatography; Read It:  Purple, Green & Yellow by Robert Munsch; Write It:  4-fold book with direction boxes, Beginning/Middle/End exercise
• Do It:  Paper Snowflakes; Read It:  Axle Annie by Robin Pulver; Write It:  Go outdoors to collect words for a group poem
•  Do It:  Color mixing; Read It:  Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Leoni; Write It:  Write directions in the boxes (see example)

_________’s Directions for __________________ Experiment

Words I need:

Step 1	Step 2	Step 3
Step 4	Step 5	Step 6