Whether you are looking for resources on integrating science, technology, engineering, and math or on infusing the arts to transform STEM into STEAM, these curated compilations will help you plan different approaches to integrated studies.
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STUDENTS: Program Helps Kansas City-Area Students Create Technology, Not Just Use It | KCUR
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Bradley Covington, a senior at Lee’s Summit North High School in Lee’s Summit, Mo., remembers well the time he planned out Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve
Source: Program Helps Kansas City-Area Students Create Technology, Not Just Use It | KCUR
North Hunterdon-Voorhees: 2015-16 STEM Committee Accomplishments
STEM Committee 2015-2016 Accomplishments
- Science National Honor Society Established at both NHHS and VHS
- Math Science Articulation Plan
- Attend and participate in staff development activities that introduce the cross curricular overlap between math and science (and other STEAM subjects in the future)
- Review the math practices documents and identify areas where the science and math overlap.
- Meet with Math Department at provided in-service to develop joint lessons for topics
- Joint Observations with Math/Science Department for interrater reliability
- Joint Grant Approved by NHEF and VHEF to train Science Departments in Inquiry Based Instructional Model to support this aspect of the Next Generation Science Standards
- Vertical Curriculum Writing Project Grades 6-12.
- All Sending Districts and Both High Schools have participated in this project. Regional Units of Instruction for Science grades 6-8 have been created based on the NJ Model Curriculum and Next Generation Science Standards.
- Added Online Chemical Inventory
- Increased the number of and focus of the articulation meetings with sending districts to help strengthen and align math programs in all districts.
- New computer course for the upcoming school year in both schools – AP Computer Science Principles.
- Both schools encouraged the entire student body to participate in One Hour of Code in December.
- Math Awareness month celebrated at both schools. Guest speaker from Muhlenberg College came to North to discuss the theme The Future of Prediction through statistical analysis of baseball stats.
- More teachers are being educated to teach computer classes – two are earning computer science certification through CSTA.
- Teachers attended the Ignite STEM Conference at Columbia University in April to gain ideas in encouraging more interest in programming.
- Outcomes from this conference is a proposal to hold a Maker Fair in our district that would be held on a Saturday and open to the sending district students as well as to our own students.
- Include Makey Makey kits in our Intro to Programming classes to encourage more interest.
- Hold a district-wide hackathon.
- Voorhees Tech Ed/Music lab was updated with a new projector, new computers and was used for all Tech Ed and Music Tech classes. The Music department also used the lab for ear training for Band, Choir, and Music Theory classes.
- Plans to include STEAM connections in lesson plans for the Art, Music, and Practical Arts classes.
ARTS: How to Keep the Integrity of Art in STEAM – The Art of Ed
Turning STEM into STEAM isn’t as simple as it sounds. STEAM lessons don’t always blend art as an equal component to the other disciplines. There are many lessons out there that claim to be STEAM, but the added art is usually an afterthought and little to no aesthetic concepts are put into the actual process. […]
Source: How to Keep the Integrity of Art in STEAM – The Art of Ed
ARTS: STE[A]Mrolled | ARTS Blog
“I used language because I wanted to offer content that people – not necessarily art people – could understand.” – Jenny HolzerSome years ago I took a trip to Lisbon, Portugal. And ignorantly (and perhaps, arrogantly), I assumed my knowledge of the Spanish language would suffice for me to be able to communicate with the Lisbonites. I soon grew frustrated at my inability to communicate with the locals and when asked to describe my experience with Portuguese, I later said it was like trying to speak Spanish using French. Language is important.
Source: STE[A]Mrolled | ARTS Blog
The Four Minutes That Changed STEM to STEAM | ARTS Blog
If you were in Washington, DC a few weeks ago, you might have participated in several events surrounding the National Arts Action Summit, now marking its 29th consecutive year of arts advocacy days on Capitol Hill.One of those events might have been the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy, delivered by John Maeda, designer, technologist, and catalyst behind the national movement to transform STEM to STEAM. He was introduced by co-chair of the Congressional STEAM Caucus, Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR).How did this duo come together before a crowd of over 1,200 to talk about STEAM on the national stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—for a lecture about how STEAM makes STEM taste better?
Source: The Four Minutes That Changed STEM to STEAM | ARTS Blog
MATH: Speaking a Common Math Language-Education Closet
MATH & ART: INSIDER – Artist makes sculptures using math
This artist makes geometric sculptures using mathematical formulas.
MATH & MUSIC: Mandalas Music and Math STEAM Unit | EducationCloset
Facebook428TwitterPinterest29Print When we talk about arts integration and STEAM, sometimes we forget that integration can (and should!) happen between fine arts areas too. We spend so much time thinking about standards that naturally connect across […]
Source: Mandalas Music and Math STEAM Unit | EducationCloset
SCIENCE & ART: Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ was re-created with bacteria. It’s as cool as it sounds.
An art contest has scientists painting with … bacteria.
Source: Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ was re-created with bacteria. It’s as cool as it sounds.