STEM/STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts
Here you'll find articles and resources for STEM+Arts education, also known as STEAM. Topics include science, technology, engineering, math and arts education and range from research reports to feature articles to profiles of makerspaces to news about new STEAM and STEAM initiatives in schools.
Part of a district-wide initiative to build STEM classrooms at each elementary school the new space is in a former computer lab and home to a full-time STEM instructor.
Quests lays a teacher's existing lesson plan over a fantasy world that students traverse by completing assignments, or quests. Completing each task, which may be an assignment, discussion, in-class activity or something else, unlocks the next.
For the event, TAMU students set up booths around the school covering topics such as petroleum engineering, biology and entomology.
Mastercard's Girls4Tech sessions bring female role models together with female students to talk about career options and try out STEM activities.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/19/17
George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science has ditched the curriculum to help younger students begin thinking like scientists.
The idea is to allow students to become practicing scientists by setting up scenarios that let them explore the natural world.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/18/17
The Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education is taking public comments on her proposed priorities for $700 million in discretionary grants the agency will issue annually in the coming years.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/17/17
A recent paper from North Carolina State University suggests this might just be the case.
The program will support projects around global issues such as climate change and food, water, and air quality.
Native Americans make up 1.2 percent of the overall U.S. population, yet only account for just 0.4 percent of all engineering bachelor's degrees. The University of Montana is looking to remedy that situation with the help of a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.