KINDERGARTEN

Flying Contraptions with Stepping Stones
Educators from Stepping Stones Museum presented Flying Contraptions to our kindergarteners! Designed to ignite students' creativity and curiosity, the program explores the principles of aerodynamics—lift, drag, weight, and thrust—through hands-on experiments with flying and gliding objects. Embracing their roles as budding aeronautical engineers, the students craft imaginative contraptions using materials like tape, coffee filters, paper, tinfoil, and cups. These creations are then tested through three exciting challenges: staying airborne for three seconds, thrusting forward, and carrying a pompom passenger.

1st GRADE

High Touch High Tech: The Force is With You

High Touch High Tech visited the 1st grade for the Force is WIth You presentation. The classes pushed and pulled their way through the natural forces of air pressure and magnetism via experiments that gave the students a chance to feel how forces start, stop, and accelerate objects all around us!

2nd GRADE

CT Science Center - Shifting Sediments 

The second-grade students worked in small groups to perform hands-on experiments with a model house on the shoreline, exploring the impacts of wind and water on erosion. They simulated how the movement of matter due to erosion takes place, demonstrating how pieces of the ground move to different locations, either gradually or over thousands of years.

3rd GRADE

Bird Beak Variations Presentation with the Eli Whitney Museum
The Eli Whitney Museum visited the 3rd grade for an enrichment program on "Bird Beak Variations." Ever wonder why different birds look the way they do? Why are some birds' beaks pointy, curved, long, or short? In this program, combining engineering concepts with biology, students built an 'arm' with the beak of a bird at the end, activated it, and discovered why it's shaped the way it is, learning that adaptation happens with the need for survival.  

4th GRADE

Town of Greenwich’s Watersheds

Environmental Analyst Aleksandra Moch and her colleague, Rebecca Poirier, from

the Town of Greenwich Environmental Commission visited our 4th grade students. The class investigated the Town of Greenwich as a watershed and learned how to protect the community's water resources. They model different pollutants in a small basin and try their hands at purifying water using a variety of strainers and filters. Thank you to the Town of Greenwich Environmental Commission for offering this important and fun program to our Riverside students!

STEM Fair

Riverside’s annual STEM Fair (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) will take place in April 2025. The STEM Fair offers students an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to real-world challenges! Read more here.