Starting a marine science or STEM unit? Looking for a STEM theme for the beginning of summer? A STEM and Sea unit provides all that you need to capture the…
Planting STEM
How Does Your Garden Grow? Exploring Plants with Children Using plants to teach STEM is one of the great joys of the arrival of spring. These garden-related learning experiences offer practical…
STEM and Failure
STEM and Failure Partners in Learning Often failure is seen as an end to an effort. It means that you couldn’t find the correct answer and that the effort fell…
Simple Machines, STEM, and Rube Goldberg
As children we loved a game by the Ideal Toy Company called The Mousetrap Game. Based on Rube Goldberg’s creative ideas of complicated systems for solving a simple problem, the…
Winter STEM Challenges
Winter is Coming! Let’s Chill Out with STEM! Frosty engineering opportunities will be here soon. When adults think of winter, they visualize the future workload of shoveling snow in sidewalks,…
Six STEM Stocking Stuffers
The holiday shopping season is getting into full swing and if you are like us, we are looking for that “just right” toy or book for the children on our…
STEAM – Putting the A in STEM
STEAM- Putting the A in STEM The need for increased STEM education has been well-documented and recommendations on implementation have been ongoing for over a decade. The logic was simple….
Classics and STEM
integrate classic literature and STEM activities with parent outreach. A great combination!
Citizen Science: Fostering the Joy of Science and Making a Difference.
April showers bring May flowers. April also brings us Library Week, Children’s Book Day, National Pet Day, Earth Day, and Citizen Science Month. Of all those interesting events, Citizen Science…
