STEAMed Magazine April 2016 | Page 47

The excitement level surrounding this project and the myriad of learning I witnessed were an incredible reminder that learning doesn’t always require fancy supplies. Don’t get me wrong – technology can be a wonderful tool in the classroom, and I love art gear as much as the next guy. But students are not only capable of higher-level thinking without them; they thrive with the occasional back-to-basics challenge. Students truly constructed a basis for new understanding…and continued forming habits of resourcefulness, too! Every teacher’s dream: Students happily engaged in critical thinking and communication! Erin Aɥ