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Science Club, Danielle Gibson, Krista Andersen Apr 2023

Science Club, Danielle Gibson, Krista Andersen

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

Honors After School program for elementary age children to engage with scientific principles. Students performed hands-on experiments to explore various STEM fields. Each weekly lesson consisted of a different concept to be learned or explored by early elementary aged students.


City Build 2040, Riley Bruno, Marisa Dendinger Apr 2023

City Build 2040, Riley Bruno, Marisa Dendinger

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

"City Build 2040" is a creative after school club that allows students to experiment both collaboratively and individually on creating a product of their choice. This club is uses cardboard, other materials and the creativity of its students to create a city full of various buildings and objects.


Girls In Stem! Elementary Afterschool Six-Week Curriculum, Jess Li, Samavi Rafique Aug 2022

Girls In Stem! Elementary Afterschool Six-Week Curriculum, Jess Li, Samavi Rafique

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

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Stem Club, Camden Jones, Erica Gesner, Amber Gadeken May 2022

Stem Club, Camden Jones, Erica Gesner, Amber Gadeken

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

The goal of this club is to introduce various topics stemming from different fields in science. We hope to excite the students about science and show them how important it is to their everyday lives. This club also aims to provide free education to underserved communities.


Math Basics Afterschool Club, Lexi Soukup, Meg Williams Apr 2022

Math Basics Afterschool Club, Lexi Soukup, Meg Williams

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

This is a compilation of Lexi Soukup and Meg Williams’ work as Club Leaders in an Afterschool Club run through the University of Nebraska- Lincoln and YMCA Afterschool Programs titled Math Basics. Our club is an interactive, hands-on math exploration where students are challenged to change their perspective of math, and it is meant to occur once weekly. During this club, we try to challenge their current views of math and expand their knowledge on math concepts they learn in class through activities and games. This is meant to make math FUN! Our compilation of lesson plans are sure to …


Stem Exploration, Caitlyn Scott, Erin Case Jan 2022

Stem Exploration, Caitlyn Scott, Erin Case

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

After school club for middle school students consisting of individual and partner activities that will building teamwork and problem-solving skills. The club will also introduce the students to many different areas of STEM.


Stem Club, Marissa Kraus, Ty Michael Fleshman Oct 2021

Stem Club, Marissa Kraus, Ty Michael Fleshman

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

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Up And Atom, Emily Plotnik, Elizabeth Struwe Oct 2021

Up And Atom, Emily Plotnik, Elizabeth Struwe

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

"Up and Atom" is a hands-on and creative afterschool club geared towards fourth and fifth graders. Through conducting a variety of science experiments, the goal of this club is to inspire a creative and immersive perspective of the sciences for the younger generation.


Stem Afterschool Club - Lava Lamps, Dylan Hiser Jul 2021

Stem Afterschool Club - Lava Lamps, Dylan Hiser

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

Afterschool Club that builds upon what students already know about science with fun and interactive experiments.


Stemendously Fun Time Stem Club, Sarah Altman, Rhiannon Carlile Apr 2021

Stemendously Fun Time Stem Club, Sarah Altman, Rhiannon Carlile

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

After school club for middle school students which focuses on bolstering scientific knowledge though experimentation and exploration of the scientific method.


Girls Computer Science Club, Emily Hogge, Mya Miller Apr 2021

Girls Computer Science Club, Emily Hogge, Mya Miller

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

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Journey Through Science Club, Jacob Sorensen, Riha Karney Jan 2020

Journey Through Science Club, Jacob Sorensen, Riha Karney

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

A science-based after school club that navigates the wonders of science while tying into fun activities for young students to enjoy, all while expanding their scientific knowledge and understanding in the process.


Full Stem Ahead, Shawn Knowlton, Megan Elbel Aug 2019

Full Stem Ahead, Shawn Knowlton, Megan Elbel

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

After school club that introduces students to STEM and builds problem-solving skills through hands-on, interactive activities.


Stem Opportunities - High School 2019, Huey-Xian Kelly Wong, Madeleine Rauhauser, Annie Morgan Nelson Aug 2019

Stem Opportunities - High School 2019, Huey-Xian Kelly Wong, Madeleine Rauhauser, Annie Morgan Nelson

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

This publication details the lesson plan for the “Opportunities in STEM” club for the summer of 2019. This club began out of a desire to educate high school students about the opportunities and careers available in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Often, students feel that the prospect of entering a STEM field is daunting and out of their grasp. What it means to be a scientist is often unclear, and students never consider opportunities out of the fear of the unknown, particularly when science is associated with complexity and difficulty. This lesson plan integrates experiments with a wealth …


Makerspace Club, Carolyn Brady Oct 2018

Makerspace Club, Carolyn Brady

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

This is a unique club that allows children to explore the world around them and make projects using materials provided by educators, and to get children thinking about how things work in the world, and how they do. They gain knowledge about success and failure of these things by recreating them.