International Walk to School Day! Great way to start our day. Thanks everyone 😊

Are you participating in #HourOfCode ? All kids K-5 at Cedar Park STEM are doing @hourofcode all month long! This week is national computer science 🤖 #CSweek where all students K-12 globally 🌎 are encouraged to try & jump into #coding 👩🏾‍💻because of glaring statistics like this:

Our 4th graders braved the cold 🥶 and nasty winds 🌬 and used their knowledge of geocaching🧭, latitude & longitude 🌎 to complete Mr. Staum’s Tech class challenge! All waypoints found ✅ 👍👍 #CPstem #196pride

Cedar Park News Team assemble! Our first set of excited and esteemed 4th & 5th grade members of CPN gathered for the first time this week to start planning our first broadcast of the year, which we hope will be by mid November! Stay tuned! 🎥 📰 📺 #CPstem #196pride

In District 196, we have over 450 American Indian students who represent over 40 nations. Hear from two elementary students on how they recognize #IndigenousPeoplesDay and are sharing their culture with their peers! #196Pride

In technology class, our techie first graders exploring community and collaboration with their iPads & Padlet by posting to Mr. Staum’s blog about their favorite tech tools to learn with at school and at home! @ISD196schools

3rd gr jumped into animal adaptations today & became mad scientists by creating their own fictional animal out of 4 different real animal adaptations-head body tail- w/ SwitchZoo website!Kids will use this for their next STEM project where they build this animal w/ @microbit_edu

5th gr in Mrs. Banken’s class working hard w/ their student teacher, Ms. Garrett collaborating on math skills in real time using https://t.co/JzBB9JFkMI Kids are casting their work to her app and kids can see everyone's work without seeing names so it is completely confidential!

Excited to be back! Excited to learn! #196FirstDay #196Pride #CPstem

#196Pride #196FirstDay #CPstem

CP Families. iPad Protection Plan. The district is essentially signing up everyone K-12 for this plan automatically without collecting the up-front fee. Read here:

This Cedar Park News broadcast is our last, but fun ZOOM interview w/ some our CPN kids. So spur of the moment the CPN kids wanted us all to use random props for our broadcast. Thx for a great year CPN(we did our best!) 😊 https://t.co/plQmiEf8GI @ISD196schools @ISD196Magnets

A Big THANK YOU to Dr. Tanya Harrison @tanyaofmars a planetary scientist for our awesome @zoom_us session today w/ all of 3rd grs about Mars, rovers, mars-quakes! & answering our ?s about our solar system unit of study🪐! A fun real-time STEM expert #collaboration @ISD196schools

Looking for an easy, hands-on way to explain to your kids how soap helps fit against viruses and bacteria? **Needed Supplies** Water Pepper Soap Now, watch as my 2 yr old tried this out. 😂😂😂 #STEM @OakRidgeMagnet

Mr. Staum got to join 1st & 4th grade buddies digital learning lesson in our new STEM Hall space. 1str gr is studying 🐧 & 4th gr helped by collaborating w/ their 1:1 iPads to help 1st gr create an infoviz of facts & pics & @GIPHY of fav 🐧s via @PicCollage @ISD196schools

3rd gr exploring sound & light with @sphero specdrums & @Ozobot ozoblockly & build your own kazoo w/ tongue depressors rubber bands & straws! 😆 Students paired up to create own melodies of high & low pitch w/ a variety of cool light 💡 & sound effects sequences! @ISD196schools

Winter survival shelters looking good!

Rock climbing this afternoon!

Raptor presentation this evening!

Gill showed us a live red-tailed hawk!