Our Mission- Tucker High School’s STEM program will allow students to experience in-depth exploration and hands-on project based learning. The use of kinesthetic learning helps students to bridge the gap between concrete observable phenomena and theoretical abstract concepts. In addition, hidden or unknown student talents are able to emerge and be identified.
Who We Are
Why STEM?
Accomplishments
Year 1
* STEM program kick-off meeting conducted by DeKalb County Schools * STEM Committee formed * Curriculum and program components of existing STEM programs researched and documented * Student application and acceptance protocol developed * Program plan completed * Permission to use Kelley Cofer Lake as project based learning module from DeKalb County Parks and Recreation – director of Parks and Recreation * Community meetings to discuss and establish plan – Friends of DeKalb Parks, Friends of Kelley Cofer Park, Tucker Civic Association, and Tucker Business Alliance * Applications for first cohort distributed and processed * First group of students selected and notified * Grant for fish hatchery submitted and received |
Year 2
* Data collection for pH, Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen for the year * Project plans for sediment, DO, run off, algae bloom and pollution * Pollinator garden constructed in partnership with Friends of Kelley Cofer Park * Students created and designed website * Educational signs with link to site designed * Floating islands designed * Four park clean up days * Raised and released 500 plus channel cats * Raised and supplied 2000 plus trout to Savannah Canal project |
Year 3
* Data collection for pH, Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen for the year * Greenhouse build * Invasive and native species (run-off and pollution control) * Increasing the variety and number of Native Birds (Bird Sanctuary) * STEM Classroom redesign (aquaponics, Pollinator Garden, Outdoor Classroom) 9th Grade * Problem based learning sediment survey * Problem based learning mosquito population * Evolution of the Lake (sediment) 10th Grade * Problem based learning module: Trigonometric Arial survey project * Swamp PBL – population growth (controlling algae) * Outdoor Learning Classroom (DO and run-off control) |
Year 4
9th Grade*Mini-Aquaponics Garden Media Center *Iditarod Dog Sled Genetics and Race *Kelley Cofer Lake Study *Macro-Invertebrates Study and Tracking *Coliform Point Source Solution Study 10th Grade *We Are Tucker Oceanography and Display Case *Eco-Column Study *Carbon footprint 11th Grade and 12th Grade *Capstone Projects |