This continuous class covers close reading and understanding informational texts. Using the fantastic STEM magazine OYLA, we will gamify close reading by embarking on a scavenger hunt. We will be shifting our mindset from working to exploring as we read wonderful articles on everything from Physics and Biology to Technology and Logic. Students will directly engage with textual features, language, ideas, and formulating their own understanding into words. All of the skills students hone in this weekly class translates beautifully into all informational text reading they need to do in school - from articles to texts books.

Every week will cover a different STEM article from OYLA. We will actively shift our mindsets from "work" to "exploration" & "play". Students will need a copy of the scavenger hunt PDF, a die (from a set of dice), and a pen or pencil. 

The class will begin with "Brain Warmer" focused on logic or idioms to prepare the students for what will be covered during the class. The class will move to PreReading skills, text features, reading, identifying the Main Idea, Author's Purpose, Summary, Making Connections, Vocabulary in Context, and Creative Mini-Project.

Every class will include a brief ice breaker, introduction to the week's article, reading, writing/verbal discussion, followed by creative mini-project and sharing (if so desired by individual students). 

Students will learn with lectures, reading, slides, printable handouts, and discussion.

Students should be in 6th-18th grade. This class does not build on previously covered material in earlier class; students can enroll in the class at any point.


Week of November 18th: Space
Week of November 27th: Mathematics
Week of December 4th:Chemistry
Week of December 11th: Physics
Week of December 18th: Medicine
Week of December 25th: Technology
Week of January 1st: Biology
Week of January 8th: Chemistry
Week of January 15th: Geography
Week of January 22nd: Physics
Week of January 29th: Medicine
Week of February 5th: Mathematics
Week of February 12th: Technology
Week of February 19th:  Planet Earth
Week of February 26th: History of Science 
Week of March 4th: Game Theory
Week of March 11th: Society and Science
Week of March 25th: Living World
Week of April 1st: Biology
Week of April 8th: Space
Week of April 15th: Mathematics
Week of April 22nd:Chemistry
Week of April 29th: Physics
Week of May 6th: Medicine
Week of May 13th: Technology
Pattern Continues