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How can you build your own seismograph?
Hands-on Activities
Build your own seismograph using common household materials.
![Bee on flower](/sites/default/files/2023-01/bee%20on%20flower.jpg)
Can you artificially pollinate a flower?
Hands-on Activities
Design and build an artificial pollinator.
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Can you design a sustainable vehicle?
Hands-on Activities
Design a transportation vehicle which can be made or powered sustainably.
![Illustration of an empty box with a question mark](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-12/empty-box-with_question_mark.jpg?itok=AXstNQKa)
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.
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Gallery Walk
Teaching STEM
This learning strategy provides students with the opportunity to walk around a classroom, actively engaging with content and each other.
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Leading Questions
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students solve a problem by asking each other leading questions.
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Michaella Chemello
Engineer in Training (Civil)
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Four Corners
Teaching STEM
This learning strategy helps students to make decisions about a problem or question.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
![Students identifying a problem](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-11/Problem_identification.jpg?itok=P3ZhYx2T)
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.
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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.
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Video Review
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students reflect upon and assess a video.