Powerful Graphic Organizers for STEM- STEM Vocabulary- Starfish Education

One particular graphic organizer that I like to provide for students is a STEM vocabulary organizer.

A STEM vocabulary organizer can be for all vocabulary words, but is most likely use as a way for kids to do a deep-dive into a few essential or key vocab words. Students determine (either on their own or with teacher direction) which word(s) will be recorded and investigate how that word relates to their unit/project of study.

Often, students run across new and unknown words in their research that they should capture for future reference. So many times, students just skip over the word and don’t give it a second thought, but adding that word to their vocabulary is an important step. This graphic organizer helps students to stop and document a new key finding. This graphic organizer can also be used to describe a scientific phenomenon.