Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM)

We use a range of innovative technology at Wendouree Primary School to engage our students, including:

• ​iPads - Students from Foundation to Grade Four

• Laptops - For each student in Grade Five to Six

• Lego Spike & WeDo 2.0 Robotics - Grade Two to Four

• Sphero robots - Students code these with our iPads

• Ozobots & Bee Bots - Robotics for our Junior School

• DJI Mavic Drone - Mapping and Perspective Activities

• Scratch - Block/Text-based coding using laptops

• 2 X Large-scale 3D Printers - TinkerCAD for 3D Design

• Minecraft Edu - Coding and scenario-based learning

Students in our Senior School have been involved in a large Science based exploration and data collection project in Minecraft. We have called this; Minecraft, Mission to Mars.

Minecraft is an innovative game which allows users to build structures within it's world with a variety of different blocks. Another way to think of Minecraft is as a virtual lego set with an infinite number of blocks and space at your disposal.

For this project, students were required to work together in teams of four to research living conditions and survivability on Mars. They then had to pack all the necessary survival items and building materials into their rocket in Minecraft. Shortly after teams launched their rockets and began setting up sustainable colonies on Mars!