STEM
Following last week’s blog regarding the “The Common Core” curriculum and the United States need to improve our state of education, I decided to do this week’s blog on how we as parents and teachers can help our children get excited about STEM. For those of you who might not know, STEM, stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and is one of the areas in which the United States ranks lower than competing countries.
The following is a list I have compiled of ways we can help
our children in this area:
1 1.
Understand your children’s/student’s interests,
strengths and weakness. By doing this you will be able to find activities they
will enjoy and prevent them from becoming frustrated.
2.
Make sure your children/students are physically
and emotionally healthy before expecting them to participate or learn from your
lesson. If they are hungry, hurt, or irritated they won’t be giving you their
full attention.
3 3. Teach your children/students how science and
technology provide value. Emphasize their interests like the internet, cell
phones, video games, and cures for diseases.
4. Create a STEM environment. Watch science related
television programs or movies and have discussions about them. Do fun
experiments that meet their age and interest levels, such as: making bubbles,
“rain in a bag”, float or sink, mentos geysers, composting, weather stations,
and “walking water”.
6.
Encourage children/students to be creative and
invent things. Explain that science can lead to fame and money. Introduce them
to Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Jane Goodall, and Temple Grandin.
I used the following webpages to provide information on this
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