Lake Metroparks STEM Integrated Programs 2016–2017 STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. STEM education is driven by problem-solving, discovery, exploratory learning and requires students to actively engage a situation in order to find its solution. • All StarLab programs u Starlight Express u Constellation Investigation u Sun, Moon & Stars u Plate Tectonics u Orbit Odyssey u Tilt-a-Whirl: A Spin Through the Seasons u Solar & Lunar Cycles • A Big Splash: The Wonders of Water • Advanced Linking Up: From Owl Pellets to Food Webs • Alien Invaders: Invasive Species Around Us • Animal Architects • Animals Through Time • Apollo Project: Bald Eagle • Biodiversity Bonanza • Biomimicry & Trees • Biospheres • Biotech Lab • Bird Beak Buffet • Chair Factory Falls: A Link To the Past • Changes in Motion • C.S.I. Wildlife • Decomposition • Discover Maple Syrup • Ecosystems & Energy • Energy through the Farm • Environmental & Climatic Changes • Erosion & Deposition • Forces in Motion • GPS Know Your Location • GPS Safari • Grist for the Meal • Ice Cream • Interactions in Ecosystems • Linking Up: From Owl Pellets to Food Webs • Little Red Hen • Lake Effect • Measurement: Mass to Volume • One Great Lake • Operation Worm Watch • Owls: Engineered for Stealth • Owls: The Night Shift • Physics of Flight • Picky Eaters, Sticky Seeds • Pizza Farm • Properties of Matter • Snowshoe Climatology • Soap Bubble Chemistry • Spiders • Stream Study • Studies in Biodiversity • Talking Bones • The Chemistry of Cheese Making • Snowbelt Climatology • The Climate for Showshoes • The Right Sized Pizza • Waves in Nature • Weather Explorers • Weatherwise Weatherwatchers For more information, see the Lake Metroparks Education Programs booklet or call the Registration Department at 440-358-7275 to schedule a program. Grade Level Program Name Grade Level Program Name All Grades Star Lab programs 4 C.S.I. Wildlife All Grades Constellation Investigation 4-5 Lake Effects All Grades Discover Maple Syrup 4-5 Orbit Odyssey All Grades Biodiversity Bonanza 4-5 Linking Up: From Owl Pellets to Food Webs All Grades Pizza Farm 5 Biomimicry In Trees PK-K Wee Weatherwatchers 5 Talking Bones PK-1 Starlight Express 5 Waves in Nature PK-2 Little Red Hen 5 Interactions in Ecosystems K Weather Explorers 5 Decomposition in Action K-2 Sun, Moon & Stars 5 Owls: The Night Shift K-2 Soap Bubble Chemistry 5-6 Forces & Motion K-3 Picky Eaters, Sticky Seeds 6 Animal Architects K-2 The Right Sized Pizza 6-7 One Great Lake K-12 Apollo Project: Bald Eagle 6-8 Advanced Linking Up: From Owl Pellets to Food Webs 1 Bird Beak Buffet 6-8 Decomposition 1-2 A Big Splash: The Wonders of Water 6-8 Owls: Engineered for Stealth 1-2 Changes in Motion 6-8 Plate Tectonics 2 Biospheres 6-8 The Climate for Snowshoes 2 Operation Worm Watch 6-8 GPS Safari 3 Studies in Biodiversity 6-12 Tilt-A-Whirl: A Spin through the Seasons 3 Measurement: Mass to Volume 6-12 Biotech Lab 3 Properties of Matter 7 Ecosystems & Energy 3-5 Grist for the Meal 7 Energy through the Farm 3-5 Ice Cream 7 Solar & Lunar Cycles 3-5 Chemistry of Cheese Making 7-12 Stream Study 3-12 Alien Invaders: Invasive Species Around us 8 Animals through Time 4 Spiders 8 Physics of Flight 4 Erosion & Deposition 9-12 GPS Know Your Location 4 Chair Factory Falls: A Link To the Past 9-12 Snowshoe Climatology 4 Environmental & Climatic Changes
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