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 use paper towel rolls filled with macaroni to make rain sticks.

1st slinkies

1st graders decorate rain sticks with feathers, felt, and tape.

1st phones

2nd graders test the strength of spaghetti.

second grader build chairs for a bear.

2nd graders use a penny load to test tensile strength.

Second graders were proud of their accomplishment.

3rd graders fashion boats out of clay.

third grader magnets

3rd graders take pride in their creations when they float.

third grader testing magnet strength

4th graders play coin toss games.

fourth grade masks

4th graders practice dexterity with  coins.

fourth graders masks

5th graders study thedifference between mixtures and compounds.

fifth graders density

5th graders separate metal from a mixture using magnets.

fifth grade density

6th graders study air pressure.

sixth graders towel designs

6th graders use air pressure to propel CDs.

sixth graders hangers

7th graders experience the action of the cell membrane using soap bubbles.

eighth graders autobots

7th graders simulate a cell membrane.

eighth graders mesh gears

8th graders build lunar modules

seventh graders put together city buildings
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 47 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 seventh year of Mater Dei,  will be my second year as the coordinator of the activities in the Stream and Science labs for grades 1 through 8.