Get Your Students Engaged in the Siemens We Can Change the

World Challenge

Lauren Espin, Siemens Foundation

Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education

What is STEM?

Siemens Foundation ProgramsFrom Grade School to Grad School

Siemens Competition Math : Science :

Technology

Siemens Foundation ProgramsFrom Grade School to Grad School

Siemens STEM Academy

Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement

Siemens Teacher Scholarships

Lance Rougeux

90 seconds

Five Minds for the Future

Gardner, Howard. (2007). Five minds for the future. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Disciplinedmastery of key subjects

Creatingbeyond existing knowledge and

syntheses to pose new questions

Respectfulseeking to understand

differences

Ethicalstriving toward good work

and good citizenship

Synthesizingarraying information to make sense to self and

others

21st Century Skills

• Teaches 21st century skills discretely in the context of core subjects and 21st century interdisciplinary themes

• Focuses on providing opportunities for applying 21st century skills across content areas and for a competency-based approach to learning

• Enables innovative learning methods that integrate the use of supportive technologies, inquiry- and problem-based approaches and higher order thinking skills

• Encourages the integration of community resources beyond school walls

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

The Shift

• Consuming• Authority• Expert• Lecture• Access to information• Learning about• Passive• Presentation• Publication• Formal schooling• Supply-push

• Producing• Transparency• Facilitator• Hallway• Access to people• Learning to be• Passionate• Participation• Conversation• Lifelong learning• Demand-pull

http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

• Empower your students to find solutions to environmental problems in their own backyards and have them become true Agents of Change!

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Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

• The Challenge is designed to help your students work together to solve an environmental problem in their…– Classroom (K-2)– School (3-5)– Community (6-8)– Beyond the Community (9-12)

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Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

• High School Focus– Project focus on energy – Expansion beyond their immediate community– Higher weight on replication/expansion

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Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

• Learn About the Challenge

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including the prizes…

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

TEAM PRIZES• 1st Place - $50,000 scholarship + finalist pack• 2nd Place - $25,000 scholarship + finalist pack• 3rd Place - $10,000 scholarship + finalist pack

TEACHER/MENTOR PRIZES• 1st Place - $5,000 grant + free registration to the

next NSTA National (or Regional) Conference + finalist pack

• 2nd Place - $1,000 grant + free registration to the next NSTA National (or Regional) Conference + finalist pack

• 3rd Place - $500 grant + free registration to the next NSTA National (or Regional) Conference + finalist pack

MORE PRIZES• 51 state finalists - Free 1 year membership to

NSTA, a 12-month subscription to DE science, and a finalist pack

• First 100 teams who enter receive DVD

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• Now it’s time to Learn, Plan, Act and Share!

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• Submitting the application is easy!

Students can create and collaborate via voice, animated doodling and text commenting

http://ed.voicethread.com

http://edu.glogster.com

http://tinyurl.com/yfxmmq4

Learning centers

Lab reports

Research projects

Presentations

Science Fair displays

WhalesGlobal WarmingWhat is Web 2.0?Incredible Universe

http://tinyurl.com/yb3j969

Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge

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www.siemensstemacademy.com

• Webinars• Resources• Blog• STEM Institute• STARs

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Questions?