How to Prepare for Your First STEM Conference
Last month, I attended my first STEM conference and wasn’t sure what to expect. Everyone that I talked to warned me that the annual International Society for Technology in Education [...]
Bringing Digital Fabrication into the STEM Classroom
So many educators have heard the term “21st Century Skills” and lately, it seems the term is being redefined. What used to be word processing, introductory coding, and searching for [...]
Looking for Leaks in the STEM Pipeline
If you teach STEM, you’ve heard about the STEM pipeline. It’s a term that’s been used since the 1970's in the United States and is still commonly used to analogize [...]
Inclusion in the STEM Classroom
Recently, my two sons had their first swim meet. One won first in backstroke and the other got second in freestyle. Although they both did well, it was something special [...]
100 STEM Competitions for Students
Have you ever wondered how your students really benefit from watching baking soda and vinegar erupt from their makeshift volcano at the science fair? Besides the eruption of “oohs” and [...]
Coding with Drones: Engaging Tools for Teaching
Introducing students to computer science can be a challenging process due to many intangible features of the curriculum and the frustrating exactness required to be successful. For many students, this [...]
Breaking Down the Buzzwords: Modeling and Phenomenon-Based Learning
In education, especially STEM education, teachers often find themselves face-to-face with jargon. In the first part of my “Breaking Down the Buzzwords” series, I explored inquiry and project-based learning. In [...]
Teaching Programming – The Robot That Does It for You!
When I first considered implementing coding in my classroom, my students wanted to learn how to code, but I had no idea how to teach this skill to them. I [...]
Robotics, Coding, and the Pursuit of Computer Science
I hold the following truths to be self-evident: All 21st-century learners are endowed with certain classroom rights. The universal access to robotics, coding, and the pursuit of Computer Science is [...]
How STEM and Sports Can Coexist in the Classroom
When I started my internship researching the relationship between STEM and sports, I had a concrete base of sports knowledge but was not as confident in my understanding of STEM [...]
Using Building Bricks in Your Makerspace
Growing up I never imagined building bricks, like LEGOs or BrickLab Brick packs, would be a serious part of curriculum; I just liked to build and create with them. I [...]
Free STEM Fact Sheets: By the Numbers
It’s no secret that there is a talent gap in STEM fields. In fact, there are way more STEM jobs available than people qualified to fill them in the United [...]
