Temple View Elementary School

08/26/2026

What a fantastic first day at Temple View Elementary! 🎒✨
Our hallways were buzzing with excitement, big smiles, and ready-to-learn energy. From meeting new teachers to catching up with old friends on the playground, today set the tone for what is going to be an absolutely amazing school year.
A huge thank you to our incredible teachers, staff, and families for helping our students kick things off on the right foot. Rest up tonight, Grizz Cubs—we can't wait to see you back tomorrow for Day 2! 🐾📚
Tag us in your favorite first-day photos! 👇

08/25/2026

Checking on all of the parents of kindergarteners today ❤

08/24/2026

Ask a 3rd grader here about their favorite lesson and you might get an unexpected answer: Vikings!

Our students dig into Norse history, geography, and mythology as part of their reading curriculum. They trace Scandinavia on the map, learn how longships were built, and read the stories of Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson.

It's history, geography, and storytelling all wrapped into one lesson.

08/19/2026

🗓️ Save the Date, Grizz Cubs!
​Kick off the 2026–2027 school year with us at Temple View's Back to School Night! 🚀🐾
​📅 When: Monday, August 24th | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
​📍 Where: Temple View Elementary
​Come meet your teacher, get set up on the new ParentSquare app, and enjoy the bounce houses, ice cream truck, and photo booth!
​We can't wait to welcome back our Grizz Cubs! 👋🐻
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08/07/2026

Paper airplanes are a science lesson in disguise.

What happens when an airplane flies? Four forces are at work: thrust, drag, lift, and weight. Thrust pushes the plane forward. Air resistance pushes back and slows it down. Lift keeps it airborne. Weight pulls it toward the ground. Understanding how those forces interact is the foundation of aerospace engineering.

Now comes the design challenge! 3rd gradestudents were tasked with building a paper airplane that could travel as far as possible, and the variables were all theirs to control. Wing width affects how much the plane fights air resistance. Weight distribution determines whether the nose cuts through the air cleanly or tips downward.

Temple View is a STEM-designated school open to every Idaho Falls family, no matter your school zone or district. We would love to meet you.
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07/28/2026

The best way to know a school is to talk to the families who chose it. Here is what Temple View parents and students are saying....

07/27/2026

What makes Temple View Elementary special? We're glad you asked!

We're Idaho's first STEM-designated elementary school, which means hands-on, project-based learning is woven into every single school day. We also have a science lab funded by Idaho National Laboratory, a student drama club, Marzano High Reliability Schools Levels 1-3 Certification, and a small school community where every child is seen and known.

Here's the best part... you don't have to live in our neighborhood to be part of it. Open enrollment for 2026-27 is open to all Idaho Falls families! Visit https://www.ifschools.org/parents-students/enrollment-and-registration or call (208) 525-7660 to learn more.

07/07/2026

Understanding moon phases and constellations is much easier to feel than to read about in a textbook. So instead of reading about it, Temple View students experience it firsthand.

Students step into a darkened room with no windows, holding a ball on a popsicle stick. A single bright light source sits at the center of the room. Each student becomes the Earth, their ball becomes the Moon, and as they slowly turn, they watch how the light and shadow shift around them, bringing the concept of night sky observation to life in a way that a diagram on a page simply cannot replicate.

This is how constellations actually work. The stars we see depend entirely on where we are standing on Earth and the angle at which we are facing the sky. By physically moving through that experience themselves, students are internalizing a concept that connects astronomy, earth science, and our place in the universe.

Temple View is a STEM-designated school open to every Idaho Falls family, no matter your school zone or district. We are accepting applications, and would love to meet you.
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07/01/2026

Every student learns differently. At Temple View, that is something we design for. Learning here looks like a lot of different things depending on the day. Students might be working in a group to research and present everything they know about a planet, then traveling around the classroom on a mini field trip to visit other planets and absorb what their classmates discovered. They might be building an ecosystem, running an experiment, or creating their own assessment to demonstrate what they have learned.

Project-based learning, collaborative experiences, and hands-on exploration are integrated into how we teach, because when students have ownership over their learning, they go deeper into it.

We also believe that school is a community, and communities thrive when everyone feels welcome. Our Family Nights are open to everybody. No barriers, no prerequisites, just families coming together around something their kids are excited about.

That openness carries into everything we do. Whatever a student needs, we want to be the school that can meet them there.

Temple View is open to every Idaho Falls family, no matter your school zone or district. We would love to meet you.

For more information about open-enrollment, visit: lficheweb1.d91.k12.id.us/Forms/SD91OpenEnrollment

06/28/2026

Community STEM Night at Temple View Elementary in Idaho Falls made for an overflowing parking lot and plenty of happy students.

The elementary school opened its doors so children and parents could build their own robots, learn to code with Ozobots, design a boat and more.

The night offered an engaging, hands-on event designed for families to explore science, technology, engineering and math together through interactive stations.

Sunshine Shepherd, Idaho National Laboratory K-12 STEM outreach manager, teaches coding and robotics to students.

"The best thing for them to learn from coding is just the foundation of how coding is important," Shepherd said. "And that they can have jobs that are in coding."

A highlight of the evening were the Ozobots, pocket-sized programmable robots designed as an introduction to coding and robotics for K-12 students. Ozobots use color sensors to follow lines and execute commands via "Color Codes" or block-based programming.

"A lot of times when we take the Ozobots people get so excited, and they don't realize how they work," Shepherd said. "It's really cool to be able to break that down with the Ozobot robot and tell them about color coordination. How we can make codes so that we can tell the robot what to do.

"One thing we like to explain to the kids is if we don't tell it what to do, it doesn't know where to go," Shepherd said.

The students enjoyed coding to be able to do that.

A color sensor underneath the Ozobot can read what the different color codes mean.

"Black usually just makes it go straight," Shepherd said. "Then you can add color commands in there and you're commanding it to turn in circles or to go backwards or to go slower. It's just like the first step in kids learning how to code from there."

INL uses these robots in various educational settings to build a "talent pipeline" for future STEM careers. Foundational robotics skills are in time connected to real-world applications, such as the advanced robotic systems used by INL nuclear robotics engineers to handle radioactive materials safely.

Young students learned a lot and had fun doing so.

"This is our special Community STEM Night where we wanted to invite families out and give them a taste of what we do at Temple View," said Andrea Williams, Temple View principal.

https://www.postregister.com/news/local/kids-enjoy-learning-with-ozobots-at-local-elementary-school/article_3f1423b0-9f64-4a57-a57c-65731ca6360d.html

Idaho National Laboratory

Community STEM Night at Temple View Elementary in Idaho Falls last week made for an overflowing parking lot and plenty of happy students.