Planning on having your elementary students complete stem challenges either at home during distance learning or at school? This post will have a stem materials list you can ask families to collect that are easy to find or fairly inexpensive to buy. Offering a list of materials to collect for parents is very helpful because a lot…
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Fall of 2020 has brought on its own set of challenges, and the stem learning is being reevaluated as it is moving to online learning. Teachers have been reading Tips for STEM Teachers and asking for more. Educators are wondering what stem challenges during distance learning will look like? How will students be collaborating with peers during online…
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New teacher or teaching 10 + years, when you take a new STEM teacher position for the first time, it feels like a roller coaster! You want your elementary students to think like scientists and engineers, but you don’t know where to even start? For some this may be an easy transition, but for others, there may be…
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If you teach STEM or Science, you must know the difficulty of managing groups during stem challenges or “group work.” I put it in parenthesis because you know there’s only one of two kids doing all the work. You might see some students with glazed eyes, some chatting with their friends, and others in conflict with their…
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A STEM Teacher’s Reflections The emotions I felt these past years few as a STEM teacher have been so much like a roller coaster. I’ve felt invigorated, excited, free, inspired, and challenged as a STEM teacher in so many ways that I hadn’t experienced in my previous teaching assignments. Going in I knew I was going to experience something that…
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