By: JakiLyn King
Objectives of this Lesson
 Discuss What STEM is
 Brush the different components, realizing that STEM
is EVERYWHERE….
 Work together to build and create, while posing our
own questions and/or solutions
 Lesson plan ideas
Q&A
The Marshmallow Challenge
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/
What is STEM?...Besides the new
“buzzword”?
STEM stands for the following:
SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY,
ENGINEERING
MATH
(An ‘A’ component may also be added to have the
acronym STEAM. This adds an ART component that
could be easily incorporated.)
What does STEM look like?
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/17/ctq_jolly_stem.html
Characteristics of a STEM lesson are:
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STEM lessons focus on real-world issues and problems.
2. STEM lessons are guided by the engineering design process.
3. STEM lesson immerse students in hands-on inquiry and open-ended
exploration.
4. STEM lessons involve students in productive teamwork
5. STEM lessons apply rigorous math and science content your students
are learning
6. STEM lessons allow for multiple right answers and reframe failure as
a necessary part of learning.
*A STEM lesson does not mean that the lesson has to have ALL of the
components….
Kids are Naturally Drawn to Sciences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkauGHxP-Uo
Take any interest and give
it a twist of STEM….
Who Has Been Here?...ANYONE?
One of my Kids’ FAVORITE
ATTRACTIONS….
Warrin Richins:
State Champion
Wrestler & State
Champion Runner up
in 195/210
divisions…3 years
running from 20002003.
Typical under achieving
teen…Until he discovered
the art of Wrestling
twisted with STEM.
Current day: He is a
successful educator and
coach with a M.Ed,
mixing his two passions
by teaching: Spanish and
Wrestling.
Science
Science isn’t just the exploding volcano, or Bunsen burners; leaf
collections or rock collections. Science includes everything! Such as:
Natural Sciences: Physics, chemistry, ecology, geology, oceanography,
space exploration and archeology, biology, zoology, botany, etc.
Social Sciences: Anthropology, archeology, communication, economics,
political science, etc.
Applied science, computer science, stats, logic and systems…..
(Whew!)
Technology
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Includes and is not limited to the following:
Coding (Worldwide Hour of Code event)
Robotics
Movie Making
Web Design
Inventions…ETC.
“The only limit is your imagination…” Hiro
From Big Hero 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSkuzg7YCo8
Engineering
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What can kids learn from Engineering????
Properties of materials
Force and Motion
Building and design
Machining
Architecture
Infrastructures
Blueprints and Planning
Mathematics
Mathematics can be utilized in every part of our every
day lives!!!!!!
Music
Architecture & Art
Golden Rectangle/Golden
Ratio
Plants, Animals, & Human
Body
Games
Turn of the Century
inventions, Etc.
STEM Lesson From Ducky:
Work Together & Keep Trying
The most important thing about
STEM….(in my humble opinion)
Students are working and collaborating
together to succeed or perhaps fail, and
then come up with new and improved solutions….
Paper Cup Tower…
Infrastructure & Geometry
Engineering/Math
What can come from kids being
involved in STEM?
Walt Disney
Cartooning, Directing
Synchronizing sound with
Animation
Animated Motion Pictures
Disneyland, Disney World,
EPCOT center
Animatronics
TV host
ETC!
JIM HENSEN
Inventor
Puppeteer
Producer
Writer
Creator
Businessman
(Went from Wilkin’s Coffee
Commercials to a multi-million
dollar industry)
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=pOKms5mlGEU
The Evolution of Transportation…..
Wright Brothers
&
Aviation
One beautiful thing
about inventors is
that the great
minds of others are
able to take their
ideas and continue
the evolution
process…..
Imagine the
evolution of
aviation from the
Wright Brothers to
Howard Hughes.
HOWARD HUGHES
Film
Producer
Director
Film Editor
Inventor
Aviator
MUSIC &
ENTERTAINMENT
Tommy Petersson
Bass Player for Cheap
Trick; Inventor by
Necessity…
Cheap Trick wanted to
increase their sound
without adding
permanent players.
Tommy Petersson
envisioned and created
the 12-string bass (a bass
guitar with 4 bass strings
and an addition 2 octave
strings for each note).
This added the sound of
two additional guitar
players, plus the bass.
TONY IOMMA
Guitarist of Black
Sabbath: Inventor by
Necessity…
Lost the tops of his fingers
of his fretting hand in a
factory accident. In order to
continue playing, he
envisioned and invented
finger-tip “inserts” to wear
for playing. This started
with a couple of sewing
thimbles he placed on his
finger tips.
This also led to him
envisioning different
weights of strings to use for
guitars that would be more
comfortable for his fingers.
Benefits of Working and
Collaborating in a team…
Students work together to approach problems and
come up with different solutions. There can be more
than one solution.
The important factor is that students are in charge of the
learning. That is where STEM meets innovation and
creation.
STEM IDEAS…Just a few
 Homemade solar ovens…Have a nacho party!
 Green houses from 2 liter bottles
 Create vehicles and race them to see which is the
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fastest (Pinewood Derby!!!!!)
Making Polymers (SLIME & GAK)
Owl Pellets
Lava Lamps
Where Food Comes From