Mary Jo Resources for STEM/STEAM with links

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/afterschool/implementation.html#asbs Good ideas for planning, organizing the why.

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://www.edutopia.org/practice/wildwood-inquiry-based-learning-developing-student-driven-questions inquiry based  learning

http://stemtosteam.org/  history and why

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/arts-inegration-joyful-learning-judy-willis-md  the arts and neuroscience

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

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/11/visual-half-brain-teaching-steam-vs-stem.html  great visual to use for both PS & SA

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-activities Activities for all ages

https://www.pinterest.com/mrsdominiquegar/girls-in-stem/  Girls and STEM

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

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

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

School Age STEM/STEAM

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/11/visual-half-brain-teaching-steam-vs-stem.html - great visual

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.sciencebuddies.org/science-activities Activities for all ages

https://www.pinterest.com/mrsdominiquegar/girls-in-stem/ Girls and STEM

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

STEM & Our Planet

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

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.

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