 My desire to collaborate with other educators in the area around the content of science and the Massachusetts science, technology and engineering standards that were adopted in 2016 and learn more about the standards and the teaching of the standards. With these new standards, I wanted to find a way to work them in to units and develop new units in my classroom. It's hard to find time for science during the day in the lower elementary grades so I wanted to find a way to work science into my literacy block.