STEAM: End of the Year

At my last STEAM activity for the year, the class presented me with a very nice booklet of thank-you messages written by the students. In it, many of the students mentioned their favorite activity. Being the numbers-driven engineer that I am, I decided to chart it and see if my perception of their interest levels per subject matched what the students professed.

Here are the results:

Every activity got mentioned, so there were no duds (phew!). Stomp rockets was the clear winner, as I expected. And the Transit of Mercury was more popular than I expected it would be.

Things that Spin wasn't mentioned, obviously, because the messages were written before that activity.

All in all, a successful freshman foray into being a STEAM educator.

Will I continue to volunteer to do STEAM activities next school year? If the teacher will have me, absolutely.