Creation Lab, STEAM, & Technology
Creation Lab and STEAM Integration
Our Creation Lab invites budding “makers” to engage in a range of STEAM activities. Students explore key design thinking mindsets through various hands-on projects in our Creation Lab. They focus on designing with the client in mind and incorporating feedback into iterative design processes. By practicing these skills, students engage with real-world design practices, develop empathy, enhance communication skills, and learn to balance creativity with constraints.
A hub for student-driven projects, the Rodeph Sholom School Creation Lab is a space for students to harness their creativity using both high and low-tech materials. Students learn benchmark skills like 3D Design, project prototyping, basic woodworking, programming, and engineering that they can then apply to a variety of co-curricular projects. Sample projects include, a 5th Grade DigiArts class where students take on the unique challenge of designing custom video game controllers for their peers, 4th graders collaborating with their Hebrew teachers to create a Chanukah Stop Motion message for families, and elementary students connecting literacy and design by using fictional characters as clients.
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Technology in the Classroom
Technology at Rodeph Sholom School is integrated into classroom experiences in age-appropriate ways that support our curriculum and promote academic skills such as problem-solving, creativity, research, and critical thinking. In keeping with the school’s mission of achrayut, the responsible use of iPads, computers, and various online literacies are key components of the technology curriculum. We offer one-to-one devices from 1st – 8th Grade. iPads are introduced in the younger grades and in 3rd Grade students transition to the use of Macbook Airs. 5th Grade students receive a Macbook Air to use throughout their middle school years, both in school and at home.