Erica Fields
@EricaFields_
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STEM teacher at Harriet R. Tubman Elementary
Gaithersburg, MD
Joined August 2017
Our fall pattern block challenge wasn’t hard enough. This first grade student took it a step further and insisted on naming every block we used.
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We wrapped up HispanicHeritageMonth in STEM. Our K students learned about Peru’s Q’eswachaka rope bridge & worked together to build their own strong bridges! 1st graders discovered Frida Kahlo’s love for animals and designed special homes or toys to keep pets happy & healthy!
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What an incredible night! Our first-ever #STEMNight @HarrietTubmanES was a huge success! Every room was filled with curiosity 💡, creativity 🧠, and hands-on fun for all ages! A big THANK YOU to our amazing community partners for helping make science come alive for our families.
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What a FANTASTIC first STEM Night!!! 🧬 🧪 We are so thankful to each of our community partners for helping us to make this night a success. Hats off to Mrs @EricaFields_ for her tremendous leadership and dedication to our school community! 💙🧡#thrivingtogether
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Our 2nd & 5th graders are celebrating #HispanicHeritageMonth in STEM by learning about Luis von Ahn — the amazing Guatemalan creator of Duolingo! 🇬🇹 2nd graders had fun with directional coding 🧭, and 5th graders brought their names to life using Scratch! 💻
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Our students learned about Arturo Arias Suárez, a Chilean engineer who helped make buildings safer during earthquakes! 🌎🏗️ Inspired by his work, they became engineers for the day—designing and testing their own buildings to see if they could survive our “STEM lab earthquakes!
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, our 2nd graders made papel picado, a traditional Mexican folk art. These colorful paper banners are used to celebrate special occasions! Through these beautiful pieces we explored symmetry & patterns while connecting art, culture, and STEM.
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🎉 Congratulations to Ms. @EricaFields_ 🎉 Ms. Fields is the winner of our PTA member raffle of a $50 gift certificate to enjoy at the Book Fair! 📚✨ Thank you, Ms. Fields, for your continued support and for helping make @HarrietTubmanES a wonderful school community! 💙🧡🐅
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Our 2nd graders explored aerodynamics through play + engineering! They built hoop flyers with different size hoops, predicted which would fly farther, and tested their ideas. Student’s discovered how stability, drag, and balance all impact flight.
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Our 1st graders learned about chromatography in STEM! They discovered that markers (we used 🟣 & ⚫️) are a mixture of different colors, and water (the solvent) helps separate them. They were amazed to see shades of blue and pink on appear on their coffee filters.
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Our 3rd and 5th graders cracked open the LEGO kits this week—building creativity, collaboration, and time-management skills one brick at a time!
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Future engineers at work! Our 4th graders @HarrietTubmanES designed wrecking balls and discovered how height affects force. 🏗️💡
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New team this year, but the old traditions carry on. Thanks for all the love today PEAMS team! 🥰
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What an amazing week together! Targeted whole staff and team specific learning, recognitions, and our annual staff BBQ! We can’t wait to see our students next week! #thrivingtogether 🪴💙🧡
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Our ELO 3rd graders @HarrietTubmanES explored 3 robotics stations inspired by Inky the Octopus 🐙! Using robots, they simulated Inky’s escape back to the sea. Huge thanks to MCPS Mobile Tech Lab for this amazing STEM adventure! #STEM #Robotics #MCPS
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Our 5th Graders are clapped out! They’ve been living it up these last 5 days! We finished out with a trip to GYC @GburgMD & got a preview of middle school life. Then Ms. Arevalo’s class dominated 4th grade in our last Battle of the classes match. Congrats 5th grade, you did it!
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Back to back field trips in June! Who planned this? So many memories have been made in the last 48 hours for these 5th graders @HarrietTubmanES and they deserve every moment of these experiences. 1 more field trip to go! Will their teachers be able to hang is the real question?
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And that’s a wrap! Kudos to the 5th grade team for a memorable promotion ceremony! 👩🎓💙🧡 @CavenaGriffith @HarrietTubmanAP @EricaFields_ @yevyvienna @BrookeHoffman02
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