3rd Grade STEM Bins

Our GSS 3rd grade students had a blast as they were challenged to create and invent real world structures using their new STEM Bins.  “STEM” is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in 4 specific disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.  STEM Bins are containers filled with simple manipulatives which provide a hands-on foundation of engineering for elementary students.  GSS students used the STEM Bin manipulatives along with “IQ Builder” and “Brainflakes,” two programs for young engineers to learn spatial reasoning.  Take a look at some of the creative structures that Mrs. Lana’s 3rd grade class built.  Looks like we may have some future engineers in class!
The Good Shepherd School
1839 Agriculture St
New Orleans, LA 70119
Tel: (504) 598-9399
GSS Mission Statement
The Good Shepherd Nativity Mission School, Inc., seeks to help low-income, urban youth in order to realize their fullest potential as productive members of society by providing them with an extended-day, year-round, quality education, integrated with personal, moral and spiritual development, and continued guidance during the students' further education.

The Judeo-Christian values which have inspired the Nativity model include a respect for the dignity and potential of each person, a responsibility to assist the poor and those in need, a strong sense of community within the one family of God, and the obligation to promote a society characterized by social justice. In this Nativity model, students are enrolled without regard to race, color, religion, or ethnicity.