In this article, the authors share how a class of fifth-grade students from an urban elementary school channeled their creativity and critical thinking in an engaging STEAM investigation. Contributors to the iSTEM (Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) department share ideas and activities that stimulate student interest in the integrated fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in K–grade 6 classrooms.
Colleagues at Bowen Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky, Karen D. Owen, karen.owen@jefferson.kyschools.us, and Lynn J. Kaiser, lynn.kaiser@jefferson.kyschools.us, are interested in integrating mathematics instruction within a STEAM lab.