The Building STEM: ”Give a Can if You Can” Project focuses on using the problem-solving design process to help provide canned food items to a local food bank, or social work fund. Students learn how to manage the project using the problem-solving design process and turn their plans into action! This STEM lesson can be used as a collaborative STEM lesson for the entire building or just your classroom. If you have any questions or would like more information about the vision of this STEM project please reach out to Giovanna Chamberlain! 

What is STEM/STEAM Day

STEM/STEAM Day falls on November 8. There’s no way around it: children are significantly better off with strong science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics skills. That’s why STEM and STEAM education programs are so important. It’s understandable that these subjects push society forward, and these programs help to find fun and engaging ways to teach them to students, which is all worth commemorating. So, on November 8, we celebrate STEM/STEAM Day! Why is STEM in Education so important? 

Click on the video below on how Hillary and I updated the Shared Google Folder of over 130 interactive Google Slide Lessons that I have been collecting since March 2020.  Here is a link to the Folder

Mystery Science - Where does it live now? 

REMINDER: In-house STEM lesson sign-up is open!

Congratulations goes out to Megan Harnish-Huaman for being our first Blog contest winner for this school year. She was among 16 other IU13 staff members that submitted pictures of their students completing STEM activities in their classroom. Click below on the image for the live drawing that occurred yesterday. Please keep sending pictures, as our next drawing will be November 24th. 

If you want more fun lessons and ideas to implement STEM in your classroom follow us on our three social media platforms. You will not only find great ideas, but see many of our classrooms showcased for what they are doing with STEM in their rooms. Please share with us any pictures of students that have a photo release. You will be entered in our monthly STEM contest. 

Last year Giovanna and I started Google STEM Classrooms. The Google Classrooms are called ECSES STEM followed by a number. Click on the image below to watch a short video on how we are adding more STEM lessons to these Google Classrooms.

Hello ECSES staff- I have about a dozen Newsela PRO account licenses not being used.