Stem Room Review Task

Write a review of your time, opinions and experiences in the stem room in week 4. Your review will
look something like:
Introduction (1 paragraph)
 Who, what when where and why.
 What does the reader need to know before reading this review?

Body (3 paragraphs)
 Give your opinions about what you thought of the day. Use examples and give reason to why did or
didn’t like parts of the day.

Conclusion (1 paragraph)
 Summarize your key points briefly. This is your last chance to sell your main points.
 Suggestions to make the room better

You can fill the body of your review with ideas from our +, O, - brainstorm session. However you
must answer the question; Do you have any resource or furniture suggestions for the stem room?

Success Criteria Stretch

o Written in past tense and in first person - What are the pros and cons of the
o Use of complex sentences with furniture and resource suggestions you
subordinating conjunctions have made.
o Title and name/s - EG. More clipboards would be
o An explanation to justify all of your nice however where would
opinions about the stem room these live in the STEM room?
o ¾ of a page of writing at least. Would they be expensive?
o Both positive and negative opinions Add these thoughts to your
o A rating out of 5 review body.
o Easy to read and understand - Include some photos of the stem room
o Your work needs to be read through to strengthen your review
and edited by one peer
o -
+ -

Positive points about the day Negative things about the day/ things we need

• Good equipment • Not enough PowerPoints

• Liked the Flexible learning • Not enough chairs for working around the round tables

• Kitchen • No clean up station

• Maximum of 3 classes • No wood work station

• Most things that we needed • Not enough cutting mats

• White board doors • Needs more tables for workspace

• Lots of space • Needs clipboards for people working away from tables

• Heaps of materials • No first aid kit

• Comfy seating • The hand drills weren’t as good as normal drills

• Alternative material variety • No surfaces or iPads

• White bard tables- easy to • No vacuum

use
• Cant hear the bell from inside
• Mats, bean bags-
• Front door kept locking automatically
comfortable
• Needed some small blow driers or fans to dry hot glue
• Chairs
• May need more ovens and fridges for cooking
• White bard cupboards
• Needs more mops for wet floor
• Can cook if we want too
• No way of drying wet hands
• Lots of building tools
• Lots of safety hazards (knives, hot glue guns, really big
• Hobby knives good for cutting
saw)

• Could use more lights / workspace lamps

• Stanley knives are a bit blunt/ need better tools

• Round seats unstable

• Two entries (away from classroom) would be better

• Could use a Radio

• Needs school phone.

• Need bigger bean bags to fit more students on

Class example
Introduction (5 sentences- 1 paragraph)

o Who, what when where and why.

o What does the reader need to know before reading this review?

Who- W42 class

What- we were constructing a wind turbine r a water wheel

When- from Wednesday to Thursday for the entire day

Where- the stem room

Why- to learn about renewable energy.

From Wednesday to Thursday, W42 class were constructing a wind turbine r a waterwheel in the
STEM room, because we were learning about renewable energy.

Body

o Give your opinions about what you thought of the day. Use examples and give reason to why
did or didn’t like parts of the day.

One of the problems we faced was that we couldn’t hear the bell. This was a problem because we
missed five minutes of recess. One possible solution to this could have been keeping one of the
connecting doors open to hear the bell.

Another one of the problems was that there was no vacuum. This was an issue because there was
lots of mess on the floor at the end of the day. Having a vacuum is more efficient than picking thing
up off the flor ourselves.

On the plus side, the white board tables were very useful for drawing out our plans. They helped us
draw diagrams along side our work and for the teacher to help us as we worked. They also folded
vertically which meant we could use them as white boards. However the tables scratched easily and
smudged when we drew on them, or when other people erased our work.

Conclusion (1 paragraph)

o Summarize your key points briefly. This is your last chance to sell your main points.

o Suggestions to make the room better.

To conclude, I fund the STEM room spacious and a really good experience. We were unable to hear
the bell and there was no vacuum. However the white board tables were very durable. We would
recommend this room to another class and give it a 4.5 out 5 stars.