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Academics
STEM & Farm
Since 2016, Overbrook Catholic School has purposefully integrated hands-on, teaching methods across grade levels with the introduction of STEM in the classroom. An outdoor mini-farm was added in 2017, with an updated barn and pavilion built in 2022, to provide students with opportunities to engage in real-life learning situations with special emphasis on inquiry-based tasks related to engineering and environmental studies.
The school has established a garden, chicken coop, and sheep barn learning area on school grounds. Students have actively engaged in a variety of lessons including tapping sugar maple trees, turning sap into maple syrup, designing hydroponic window farms, learning animal and garden management, designing an area and perimeter pumpkin patch, and participating in a school-wide composting challenge. All STEM challenges are guided by the Engineering Design Process that invites students to complete challenges by first beginning to wonder.
The school has established a garden, chicken coop, and sheep barn learning area on school grounds. Students have actively engaged in a variety of lessons including tapping sugar maple trees, turning sap into maple syrup, designing hydroponic window farms, learning animal and garden management, designing an area and perimeter pumpkin patch, and participating in a school-wide composting challenge. All STEM challenges are guided by the Engineering Design Process that invites students to complete challenges by first beginning to wonder.
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Preschool STEM
Growing a pizza garden
Outdoor garden observations and investigations -
Kindergarten STEM
Planting pumpkin seeds to predict and measure growth of leaf, stem, and flowersOutdoor garden observations and investigations
Lego build projects -
First Grade STEM
Chicken hatchingFall -harvest of Pumpkins with counting, graphing and measuring the pumpkin patchSpring – Designing a salad gardenSchool-wide composting challengesRigamagig STEM building challengesOutdoor garden observations and investigations -
Second Grade STEM
Animal care research and growing systems projectsChicken egg selling business with introduction to the concepts of loans, community tax, income and expenditures, savings and donations to charityK’nex building challenges to support understanding in volume, weight, capacity, distance and simple machinesRigamagig STEM building challengesSchool-wide composting challengesOutdoor garden observations and investigations -
Third Grade STEM
K’nex building challengesRigamagig STEM building challengesSchool-wide composting challengesOutdoor garden observations and investigations -
Fourth Grade STEM
Tapping sugar maple trees and turning sap into maple syrupK’nex building challengesRigamagig STEM building challengesSchool-wide composting challengesOutdoor garden observations and investigations -
Fifth Grade STEM
Constructing a hydroponic window farm systemK’nex building challengesRigamagig STEM building challengesSchool-wide composting challengesOutdoor garden observations and investigations -
Sixth Grade STEM
K’nex building challengesRigamagig STEM building challengesSchool-wide composting challengesOutdoor garden observations and investigations
4210 Harding Pike Nashville, Tennessee 37205
Phone: (615) 292–5134 Fax: (615) 783–0560
Phone: (615) 292–5134 Fax: (615) 783–0560