STREAM Lab

The Mater Dei Catholic School STREAM Lab is based on the “Maker Movement.” The “Maker Movement” is designed to allow a student-centered approach in the areas of Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics.

The STREAM Lab allows for students to flourish in an environment where they tinker, create, invent, build, and interact with each other within the curriculum. Students will build confidence in their capabilities and explore the world they live in to develop an attitude to fix, make, change, modify, and customize their world.

See what the students accomplish when working in the Stream Lab.

second graders make aluminum boats to hold hearts.

1st grade see sound waves in water

2nd grade built a very high tower.

3rd grade build cup towers.

4th graders work together to build a ceiling high structure.

5th grade get creative with Keva blocks.

6th grade race aluminum stick figures.

7th grade test tower strength.

8th grade create a water filter.

second graders make aluminum boats to hold hearts.

My name is Mrs. Kerr.  I am a product of 18 years of Catholic education.  I attended St. Louis Elementary School in Yeadon, Delaware County.  I completed my high school education at Villa Maria Academy in Malvern.  Immaculata College was the school where I  received a Bachelor's degree.  My graduate work was completed at Villanova University.  I worked in the pharmaceutical field doing kidney research for seven years before starting a family.  I was the comptroller of a small company for the past 49 years.  I am the proud parent of 4 children -- 2 boys and 2 girls.  I started at St.Stanislaus as the first computer teacher.  I taught 2 programming languages  for 3 years. Then  I moved into the eighth grade.  During the first 5 years of Mater Dei I taught in the 7th and 8th grade.  This the fifteenth of Mater Dei will be the tenth year when I will be the coordinator of the activities in the Stream and Science labs for grades 1 through 8 

1st grade build tracks for a ball to travel on.

2nd grade create structures with imagination.

3rd grade test strength of cylinders, triangles and squares.

4th grade make crystal snowflakes.

5th grade learn metric measurement.

6th grade build Rube Goldberg machines.

7th grade build a ball drop maze.

8th grade protect a marshmallow from a fall.