This powerpoint focuses on:
-Defining STEM/STEAM​
- Benefits of STEM/STEAM​
- STEM/ STEAM Format​
- Assessing STEM/ STEAM​
- Showcasing STEM/ STEAM ideas and resources​
- Connecting to Outcomes/ Planning Time

STEM Challenges Powerpoint

Workshop Targets:

•Defining STEM/STEAM
•Benefits of STEM/STEAM
•STEM/ STEAM Format
•Assessing STEM/ STEAM
•Showcasing STEM/ STEAM ideas and resources
•Connecting to Outcomes/ Planning Time
•Feedback

TeachEngineering is a searchable, web-based digital library collection comprised of standards-based engineering curricula for use by K-12 educators to make applied science and math come alive through engineering design in K-12 settings. The TeachEngineering collection provides educators with *free* access to a growing curricular resource of activities, lessons, units, maker challenges, and sprinkles for use in informal education settings.
Formation of the TeachEngineering collection was funded primarily under the NSF National Science Digital Library program, aiming to establish a national digital library that constitutes an online network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels. Many other generous sponsors and web partners have enabled its ongoing development and promotion.

STEM MINDS™ curates, creates and delivers the best STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) programs to children, specific to their needs. “A” for Art is embedded in everything we do as creativity is the foundation for learning!

Use the menu to navigate to the STEM Hub to find plenty of great coding activities. (http://stemminds.com/steamhub/steam-hub-courses-3/)

You will need to register for a free account to access materials.

This site offers a collection of hundreds of free K-12 STEM resources, from standalone models and simulations to short activities and week long sequences of curriculum materials. Filter by type of subject, activity type and grade. Searchable subjects include: physics and chemistry, life science, engineering, earth and space, and math.

Some of the hands-on activities include:
-circuits and party lights
-how fast do humans run
-brain injury
-how sharks swim
-harnessing electricity
-building model hand

OR explore the whole library to find something to suit your needs! This includes smaller lessons as well as larger. (E.g., oceans, lemon battery, light, solar, motors, sensors, windmill, seismograph, telegraph)

Each activity is broken down into steps and includes the time needed and an estimated cost per student in USD.

Hacking STEM Lessons & Hands-On Activities

Build affordable inquiry and project-based activities to visualize data across science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum. Middle school standards-based lesson plans written by teachers for teachers.

Lesson Plans, They’re Free!

This choice board offers students and families a menu of options for some fun summer learning. There are some attached documents to support the choice board. Have fun! 

Students explore the concept of a sacred place by looking at works of art representing sacred spaces, and studying the California missions. They explore perspective and point of view in both the visual and literary senses. Students create a project poster displaying photos, drawings, and journal writings that incorporate the major themes of California's missions, and use perspective and point of view both visually and in writing.

This standard covers all aspects of safety and health in the welding environment, emphasizing oxygen gas and arc welding processes with some coverage given to resistance welding. It contains information on protection of personnel and the general area, ventilation, fire prevention and protection, and confined spaces. A significant section is devoted to precautionary information, showing examples, and an extensive bibliography is included.

The Saint Basil Cathedral is one of Russia's most popular cultural symbols. There are several templates to print that students color then arrange into their own Russian-inspired masterpiece.

Same or Different? is a routine that provides students opportunities to construct arguments when comparing objects, such as numbers or shapes.

A routine like Same or Different? provides accessible opportunities for even youngest students to learn how to talk about various features of mathematical objects – quantity, shape, color, orientation, and arrangement, to name a few.

Cultivate Ethical Global Digital Citizens.
Global Digital Citizenship is about using your head and heart, and taking responsibility for others. A set of clear and meaningful guidelines helps foster lifelong Global Digital Citizenship practices.

These free Digital Citizenship Agreements give you just that. Join thousands of schools all over the world that are currently using them in their own digital citizenship practices.
You'll get guidelines for primary, middle, and senior grades in this valuable free resource, plus a shareable Global Digital Citizen Honour Code.

Use this resource to:

Develop understanding
Cultivate responsibility
Build a personal code of honour
Foster community
Deliver consistency K-12

The resource Sample Math Outcome Questions: An Assessment Resource for Teachers:

GRADES 1 to 9 NOW AVAILABLE.

*provides possible questions, sample responses and rubrics for classroom instruction and assessment is not mandatory.
*was created to support the teaching and learning of mathematics. It can be adapted by teachers to meet the individual needs of their students.
*can be used before, during and/or after classroom instruction as formative or summative assessment(s).
*is designed to elicit responses that inform teachers’ understanding of the skills and concepts that students need to know, understand and are able to do.

This resource primarily assesses students using written response. Indicators that include terms such as research or collect data (for example) are ideally assessed by means other than a written response. Subsequently, teachers must keep in mind that using this resource provides only one of many forms of evidence that teachers collect to report on student achievement of the outcome.

Each resource includes the outcome, indicators, sample assessment and answer key.

Today we’re going to talk about good and bad surveys. From user feedback surveys, telephone polls, and those questionnaires at your doctors office, surveys are everywhere, but with their ease to create and distribute, they're also susceptible to bias and error. So today we’re going to talk about how to identify good and bad survey questions, and how groups (or samples) are selected to represent the entire population since it's often just not feasible to ask everyone.