STEM Skills Challenge- Smooth Sailing
Throughout this series, we've been talking about the importance of soft skills and how many…
STEM Skills Challenge- Souper Structures
USA Today College and other leading publications report that employers strongly value soft skills. The…
STEM Skills Challenge- Build a Better Boat
Recently, CNBC conducted a survey of 500 top executives. Of those surveyed, 92% said that…
STEM Skills Challenge- Spacesuit Spuds
As we focus on STEM skills that can be achieved through short (or long) duration…
STEM Skills Challenge- Crazy Catapults
Even though the STEM acronym stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, there are a…
STEM Skills Challenge- Plastic Cup Pyramid
In aiming to provide students with engaging STEM challenges that push the envelope on developing…
STEM Skills Challenge- Newspaper Table
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been sharing the importance of teaching STEM skills…
STEM Skills Challenge- Paperclip Airplanes
During this series on STEM Skills Challenges, we are focusing on the soft-skills that help…
STEM Skills Challenge- Gumdrop Bridge
Employers today are looking for students who have learned how to think and how to…
STEM Essentials- Developing Effective STEM Units
Planning a STEM unit can be very time-consuming if done right, but the outcomes and…
STEM Essentials- Redesigning and Debriefing
In this series, we're learning how to plan a proper STEM unit. If you've been…
STEM Essentials- Communicating Results
In working to create a comprehensive STEM unit plan, we've talked about how to develop…
STEM Essentials- Decision Making
In this series, we've been investigating how to best plan a STEM unit. We have…
STEM Essentials- The Engineering Design Process
On the road to planning an effective STEM unit, we have: Sketched out a plan…
STEM Essentials- Creating Rubrics
When developing a STEM unit, it's important to put a lot of time into the…
STEM Essentials- The Assessments
After you have thought about your STEM unit and have developed a plan that contains…
Mars Rover Celebration Update
Very rarely do I get to "advertise" projects that I'm working on since they are…
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- 10 Projects for Engaging STEM
One of the biggest challenges in STEM education is finding good challenges for students. These…
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- Lunar Landers
Lunar Landers teaches students to design, build and test an out of this world (sorry,…
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- Solar Ovens
This week's Brown Bag STEM Challenge is designing and building a solar oven...and to test…
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- Zip Lines
For this week's engineering design challenge, we'll construct a zip line that will drop a…
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- Hovercrafts
In keeping with the theme of teaching STEM concepts through simple projects whose supplies fit…
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- Building Windmills
How about a Brown Bag STEM Challenge about renewable energy? In this challenge, students use…
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- Paperclip Sailboats
Paper Sailboats are a wonderful way for students to easily experiment with different design components. …
The Brown Bag STEM Challenge- Roller Coasters
To liven up any Forces and Motions discussion, roller coasters are a sure hit! This…
