Biological Curriculum Expert suggests more coordinated strategy for precollege education in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (STEM).
What is STEM Education?
Posted in: Biology, Counselors, Educators, STEM Education
Ed Trust Presentations
These Powerpoint presentations address achievement issues of what we need to be doing better.
Posted in: Achievement, Counselors, Educators
Elementary Career Awareness Activities
Oregon’s Partnership for Occup and Career Information offers these free materials useful with elementary students.v
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NCIS’s Pauley Perrette Promotes STEM Video Clip
check out Pauley Perrette’s clip about the importance of engineering. Part of the Entertainment Industries Council’s S.E.T Project it is raising the importance of Science, Engineering and Technology.
Posted in: Counselors, Parents, STEM video clips, Students
Connect a Million Minds to After-School Opportunities
Connect a Million Minds is an excellent website devoted to helping students find after school opportunities to learn about STEM.
Posted in: after-school, Counselors, Educators, informal learning, Parents, STEM
Nerds and Geeks Video Challenges Norms
The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth is a short video about how being called and labeled geeks, nerds, and dorks is not necessarily a bad thing.
Posted in: Counselors, Educators, STEM Careers, STEM video clips, Students
Counselors: Lead STEM Students to Competitions
The James Webb Space Telescope helps us to better understand the origin of the universe, but here are two problems; (1) how to get it there with existing rocket technology, and (2) how to design a shield to protect the telescope?
Posted in: competitions, Counselors, NASA, Students
Engineering Problem Solving Challenge
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenge Summit is “bringing together hundreds of leading scientists and engineers, educators, policy leaders, innovators and forward-thinking corporate executives to address society’s most pressing problems.”