Our qualified staff includes three classroom teachers who demonstrate a passion in STEM subjects. STARBASE Vermont instructors are all current licensed teachers. Our exciting and captivating curricula, which meets national and state standards, builds on six core components.
STARBASE VERMONT
CURRICULUM(25 hours)
PHYSICS
- Newton’s Laws of Motion – Model Rocketry, hands-on experiments
- Fluid Mechanics and Investigations – Bernoulli’s Principle
CHEMISTRY
- Building Blocks of Matter – Molecular Models, States of Matter, Chromatography
- Physical & Chemical Changes
- Fluid Investigations
TECHNOLOGY
- Innovations – Nanotechnology, Robotics
- Navigation and Mapping – Topography, Satellite Imagery, Holograms, Vermont Mapping
ENGINEERING
- Engineering and Design Process – Eggbert
- 3-D Computer Aided Design (CAD)
ENERGY
- Energy Fundamentals- Energy Explorations
MATH OPERATIONS & APPLICATIONS
- Numbers and Number Relationships – Fingerprint Analysis
- Measurement – Metric Mission
- Geometry – Fly on the Ceiling, a coordinate grid activity
- Data Analysis – Pop Goes the Fizz
STEM CAREERS
- STEM careers
- Personal Investigations
