Engaging Students in

STEM Learning

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world sense

integrate theory

project based

novel situations

solve problems

foster creativity

technologically literate

Science and Technology / Engineering Curriculum Framework May 2001

why STEM

tech professionals of

2020

21st Century Skills

• “…an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can’t think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad, or speak a language other than English.”

-How to Build a Student for the 21st Century, TIME Magazine, December 18, 2006

“I am calling on our nation’s governors and state education chiefs to develop standards and assessments that don’t simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century

skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity”

-President Barack Obama, March 2009

growth field

learning

modeling videoconferencing problem solving

to simulations to virtual worlds to programming

modeling to simulations

part 1

try scienceexperiments

hot chalk off road video

try engineering

http://fuelourfuturenow.com/

building bridges

build a roller coaster

try science simulations

http://tryscience.org/grid/home.html

http://www.tryscience.org/tsadv/world/home.html

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php

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modeling and simulation webslide

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videoconferencing to virtual worlds

Part 2

eMissions

video

NASA digital learning network

http://www.astronautmmo.com/dmf/

power UP

dimension M

the backstory

quest atlantis

missions

• Taiga: A Water Quality Unit • Virtual Mesa Verde: A Social Studies Unit • Plague World: A Persuasive Writing Unit • Statistics: A Math Unit Unit• Spacenik: A Planetary Science Unit • Biological Indicators Mission • Diversity Mission • Rights & Responsibilities Mission • Two Cells, One World Mission

missions

Explore one world…

emissionsnasa DLNpower upquest atlantisdimension m

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problem solving to programming

Part 3

green blob

a world in motion

braining camp

http://kids.discovery.com/games/games.html

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

http://www.edheads.org/

lego mindstorms

scratch

Explore …

whizballfantastic contraptionedhead gamesscratchlego mindstormsa world in motionbraining camp

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Engaging Students

inSTEM Learning

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Q & A

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