GREEN RIVER Fifth grade students at Washington Elementary School in Green River recently put their S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and computer science skills to work to create ornaments for Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon’s Christmas Tree.
This year, all the students at Washington Elementary are being taught S.T.E.M. and computer science, and in computer science the students are learning about coding.
The Junior Kindergarten through third grade students are using the Scratch Jr platform. The fourth and fifth grade students are using Tynker. The coding at this age focuses on using blocks to code with. Along with coding, the S.T.E.M. classes use curriculum through Project Lead The Way.