As a STEAM teacher, I believe it is critical that our students understand and make connections between the classroom and the real world. While not every child aspires to be an engineer, nor do we expect them to be, every child will be faced with […]
Read MoreThis video demonstrates how disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices provide a learning model requiring students to be knowledgeable about science, scientific practice and the ability to apply it in the […]
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By Anne Jolly
You already know what the acronym, STEM, stands for – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Add an “A” for arts, and the acronym becomes STEAM.
At first, including that “A” generated questions and frequent push-back, […]
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By Anne Jolly
How can students continue to grow in STEM habits and attitudes through holidays, weekends, and even during the school day, given the relatively short time that STEM teachers can interact with a class of students?
Consider this: […]
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Four Teachers from four different classrooms at Huntington Middle School (PA) used their individual strengths in a rotational, project-based model to teach middle-school students how to apply STEM to real-world situations.
The team included […]
Read MoreBy Anne Jolly
I never intended to be a teacher. I took a “temporary” job as a middle school science teacher when I moved to a new city and no jobs were available in my virus research profession. By the end of that first year, I was in love. I fell […]
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Don’t miss this report: The Complex Data on Girls in STEM in The Atlantic Daily. The new National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) measured students’ ability to think through problems systematically, using technology and engineering to […]
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Two elementary school teachers explain how they infused literacy and STEM to create an engaging lesson that improved their students' problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Last year, Lake Lehman School District (Lehman, PA) created an […]
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As a futurist and innovator, Tim Brown looks at emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and robotics to figure out where the […]
The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) is moving to further support Ka Hei, its statewide strategic program kicked off in 2014 that educates students about sustainable energy transitions happening across schools throughout the state, […]
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