STEM-tastic Honors Practices - American Honors Faculty Conference 2016

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STEM Overview

STEM-tastic Honors Practices

Review what STEM means

Challenges in STEM Education

Head Back to BASIX

STEM Activity Examples

Paper Airplane Challenge

Discussion and Closing

STEM-tastic Honors Practices

Challenges in STEMSTEM-tastic Honors Practices

Socioeconomic-biases

Racial and Ethnic Biases Gender-biases

http://xkcd.com/385/

Supporting STEM Education in Underserved Groups

STEM-tastic Honors Practices

Enhance substantive knowledge and technical skills

Offer support at all levels

Facilitate the creation of networks and sustain them

Provide a bridge of experiences

Back to BASIX

STEM-tastic Honors Practices

Build

Analyze

Synthesize

Iterate

eXtend

STEM Activity Examples

STEM-tastic Honors Practices

Arduino Raspberry Pi Trebuchet/Cannon Challenge

Rocket or Car Challenge

Vlog/Podcast Rube Goldberg Machine

Trebuchet/Cannon Challenge Examples

STEM-tastic Honors Practices

Solar Car Engineering Bones (Legos)

Fllying Lemur EV3 Robot

Don’t Blow the Breaker

Hydroponics Weather Balloon Challenge

Paper Airplane ChallengeSTEM-tastic Honors Practices

Aligning Assessments with Objectives

Questions?