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.
Participants will learn how to use game-design principles and tie games into their lessons. Teachers have until September 21 to get their applications in.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/21/18
Minecraft: Education Edition is coming to the iPad platform in September.
A nonprofit to help girls learn how to launch businesses, nonprofits and community projects that "impact" their world is taking applications for its online 2018-2019 program. The latest success story is a website developed by a 16-year-old to help kids understand deportation in case their families are at risk.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/15/18
This week, 100 girls from numerous countries, including the United States, have gathered in Tbilisi, Georgia (the country, not the state) to participate in daily STEAM activities as well as cross-cultural and leadership activities.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/14/18
For the first time in 12 years, the state of California is reviewing its K–8 science course materials for adoption of new resources in time for the spring 2019 semester. Not every publisher is going to make the cut.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/14/18
Over the last few years, I've watched from afar as Pittsburgh's Remake Learning initiative has blossomed into a resource-rich network. Its 533-member organizations are striving to inspire and equip the next generation of innovators, problem-solvers and critical thinkers through hands-on, relevant learning.
The application period for Acer's STEAM Lab Makeover contest is coming to a close in a few weeks. The contest will award a mixed-reality technology package to one school.
If we need students to be learning coding now, yet the schools are not ready for it on many levels, where does that leave us?
The application period for the Lowe's Toolbox for Education grant program is now open. The program will award $2,000 to $5,000 classroom grants to as many as 1,000 schools and parent-teacher organizations.
GitHub has released four new courses on its Learning Lab, an online learning hub intended for people "of all skill levels."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/06/18