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.

1st graders design cardboard disks.

1st Keva

1st graders use pennies to spin the disks.

1st Jenga

2nd graders test the absorbency of a special powder.

second graders make aluminum boats to hold hearts.

2nd graders find that the special powder is what is found in diapers.

Second graders build heart mountains to withstand a breath wind.

3rd graders build cars equipped with magnets.

third graders test strength of different wood layers

3rd graders use magnet wands to move their cars across the table.

third graders test effectiveness of many layers

4th graders create bobsleds with toilet paper tubes.

fourth create wind mobiles

4th graders try to race their bobsleds down a ramp.

fourth graders masks

5th graders create slime.

fifth graders chemical reaction

5th graders compete to get the longest slime string.

fifth grade

6th graders build catapults.

sixth graders towel designs

6th graders compete to see whose catapult can propel the pom pom a greater distance.

sixth graders

7th graders make Gluep.

eighth graders

7th graders try to make Gluep masks.

eighth graders

8th graders make straw rockets.

8th graders compete with straw rockets for distance.

8th graders find that a successful implosion is difficult.
Maureen Kerr

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 have been the comptroller of a small company for the past 48 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 grades. This, the eighth year of Mater Dei,  will be my third year as the coordinator of the activities in the Stream and Science labs for grades 1 through 8.