Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Mary Jo Resources for STEM/STEAM with links

http://steamedu.com/about-us/administrators/ Good ideas for planning and Administrators and community
http://steamedu.com/about-us/administrators/ 38 page resource very informative, especially regarding why to have steam for administrators
http://stemtosteam.org/  history and why

http://steam-notstem.com/articles/stem-to-steam/ steam not stem and why and why now

STEM/STEAM doc from first meeting with links

Preschool STEM/STEAM
http://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/science-experiments-and-activities/  indoor/outdoor really good ideas with materials list and photos


School Age STEM/STEAM
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/search.shtml?v=ia&ia=EnvSci&p=2  this is a great site! Each project has a difficulty list, material list, Bibliography information and covers many topics! Indoors, outdoors, earth science, technology, etc. http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas.shtml#browseallprojects
http://www.donorschoose.org/project/stem-to-families-making-a-connection/1499780/ Donation site and a project from a teacher in PA using SEESAW portfolio and an iPad to send info to parent’s phones to get interact with families and the community.
eastendhouse.org/sites/default/files/STEM-Roundtable-Notes-2012.pd paper Charlie Hutchinson

Plugging the Leaky STEM Pipeline - East End House – history and importance

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500693.2016.1147661 abstract OST and effects on Science test scores vs interest in Science careers.

http://npass2.edc.org/resources/links NPASS resources

http://npass2.edc.org/sites/npass2.edc.org/files/NPASS%20Afterschool%20Science%20Briefing%20FINAL.pdf OST Brief


http://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/science-experiments-and-activities/ STEM on a budget

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Ideas for STEAM

SOME STEAM THOUGHTS

THINK STEAM- focus on processes with questioning.

FEEL STEAM- connect to the social emotional fail and success. (ie Edisons light bulb)

CREATE STEAM- children driven planning, activity driven for classroom (creating a STEAM classroom)

BUILD STEAM- using recycled materials and other ideas to keep it inexpensive.

MEASURE STEAM- Observations of classroom activities as teacher and participant.

TRANSFORM STEAM- Helping to think outside of the box focusing on creativity and utilizing nature.

ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS


Wednesday, April 6, 2016

For Resources all things School Age

This will be the first of many posts hopefully able to share resources for all things school age teachers and after-school programs could be using.

PLEASE POST ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IN COMMENTS... THANK YOU