What Does STEM Look Like at Lincoln?

Unique Features of Our STEM Program

  • All students at Lincoln participate in STEM instruction daily as a part of the regular curriculum.
  • Our STEM program is not a lab, special program for high achieving or gifted students, enrichment or periodic special activity in science or math - it is a school wide curricular approach infused every day for all students
  • Curriculum is integrated into STEM units with unique themes that combine and intertwine concepts in language arts, math, science and social studies.
  • Curriculum makes logical connections between subjects and challenges students to generalize and apply learning.
  • Curriculum is aligned to Florida B.E.S.T.
  • Curriculum is differentiated for all students so that all students are challenged and continue growth.
  • Curriculum requires development of substantial independence and fosters exploration, reflection and student engagement.
  • Within the STEM framework, engineering is an integrating thread, a way of thinking and problem solving that ties other unit components together.
  • In each unit, students are faced with problems for which they will use engineering design process to provide feasible solutions based on analysis of pros and cons, by balancing the constraints and evaluation of consequences.
  • STEM begins the first day of Kindergarten - it is the way we learn and the way we think.
  • Teachers work collaboratively to plan and develop each unit; while we share and mentor other schools on request, our curriculum is not available commercially or implemented anywhere else - it is developed and continuously revised to meet unique learning needs of our students. Therefore, our curriculum overcomes a cookie cutter, one size fits all approach. This ability to customize curriculum allows us to challenge and assure that ALL students reach their full potential.