STEAM Lessons About the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a little tradition in my house just like it is in millions of other homes in the United States. For the last few years Macy’s has offered some hands-on STEAM lessons related to the parade. Parade 101 features four video demonstrations of hands-on activities that students can do at […]
A Free STEM Toolkit for Librarians
Last week while looking for directions for a soda pop experiment I refined my search to show just PDFs. When I did that I came across a PDF from the Idaho Commission for Libraries. That PDF is titled A Toolkit for Libraries Providing STEM Outreach Activities. A Toolkit for Libraries Providing STEM Outreach Activities contains directions […]
Dozens of Online Games Kids Can Play to Learn About Engineering
Try Engineering is a site that hosts lesson plans and games designed to get students interested in engineering. The lesson plans are arranged according age and engineering topic. The lesson plans can be downloaded as PDFs. The games section of Try Engineering features dozens of online games. Some of the games were developed specifically for Try Engineering while others are […]
Free Hands-on STEM Lesson Plans and Projects
“Hacking STEM” was one of the initiatives that Microsoft was heavily promoting at the BETT Show last month. I asked a few Microsoft employees what “hacking STEM” meant. They all replied with explanations that centered on the idea of providing teachers with hands-on STEM lessons and projects that can be done without having to spend […]