Fifth-grade students at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base are engaging in exciting, hands-on science learning through the DOD Starbase program. The program provides 25 hours of S.T.E.A.M. instruction over five visits, focusing on diverse scientific concepts and applications.
Science is not usually a topic fifth grade students love.But at Davis-Monthan Air Force base, students are ditching the books and getting hands-on learning as part of the DOD Starbase program.'Our students come in for 25 hours of S.T.E.A.M. instruction spread over five visits. Each visit has a different focus, but those focuses encompass a lot of the S.T.E.A.M. entities,' says Kristine Impellizzeri, director of the Davis-Monthan program, said.S.T.E.A.M.
Fifth grade student Elayna Livingood was in one group that succeeded on their first try. And she says science isn't her favorite subject. “I didn't really know what science meant until today. And today was just really fun. I didn't think we were gonna do something really fun with like, hands on doing this,” says Livingood.Impellizzeri and her team are part of the federally funded Starbase program, but she also has Tucson roots of her own.
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