How can you build your own seismograph?
Hands-on Activities
Build your own seismograph using common household materials.
Can you artificially pollinate a flower?
Hands-on Activities
Design and build an artificial pollinator.
Can you design a sustainable vehicle?
Hands-on Activities
Design a transportation vehicle which can be made or powered sustainably.
Let's Talk Misinformation: Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources to get you thinking about misinformation and its spread in advance of the symposium Let's Talk Misinformation.
Gallery Walk
Teaching STEM
This learning strategy provides students with the opportunity to walk around a classroom, actively engaging with content and each other.
Leading Questions
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students solve a problem by asking each other leading questions.
Michaella Chemello
Engineer in Training (Civil)
Four Corners
Teaching STEM
This learning strategy helps students to make decisions about a problem or question.
The Design & Build Process
Backgrounders
One way that humans apply skills and knowledge as we fulfil our desire to modify the world to suit our needs is through technological problem-solving.
Analyzing & Interpreting
Teaching STEM
Analyzing data is a process of looking for patterns in data that has been collected through inquiry and figuring out about what the patterns might mean. Interpreting the data is a process of trying to explain the patterns that were discovered.
Reflecting
Teaching STEM
Reflecting is a process whereby students use critical thinking skills to look back on a learning experience in terms of things that went well and areas where there may be room for growth/change.
Design Planning
Teaching STEM
A design plan lays out ways in which students will develop and test the agreed-upon solution to a Design & Build challenge.
Problem Identification
Teaching STEM
The first step in the Design & Build process is the identification of the key problem to be solved or need to be addressed.
Think-Discuss-Decide
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop decision-making skills as they think about and discuss issues with the aid of a graphic organizer.
Video Review
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students reflect upon and assess a video.