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Playdough for Everyone

Playdough for Everyone

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Active Learning, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, Elementary & Middle Years, English, Inclusive Practices, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Resource, Secondary | Tagged with create make innovate, hands-on, makerspace, playdough, STEM

Playdough is a tactile educational tool that can be used as a way to incorporate creativity and kinesthetic learning into lessons. It is inexpensive and easy to make using available kitchen ingredients (flour, salt, water & oil). Playdough can be used throughout the curriculum for all ages: it can be an effective form of experiential […]

Podcast Series: interdisciplinary learning

Podcast Series: interdisciplinary learning

Posted in artSTEAM, Blog Posts, Elementary & Middle Years, engSTEAM, Inclusive Practices, mathSTEAM, Not Subject Specific, Podcast, Post Secondary, sciSTEAM, Secondary, Special Projects, techSTEAM | Tagged with interdisciplinary learning, podcast, Podcasts, STEAM, STEM, TLEF

Thinking Outside the Sandbox was created in summer 2020 as the result of a collaboration between two graduate students Belén Guillemin and Nashwa Khedr, together with Yvonne Dawydiak, Learning Design Manager, Teacher Education as part of the 2020 Scarfe Sandbox team. The inspiration for the podcast series came about as Belen and Nashwa interviewed Faculty […]

Storytelling for STEM Subjects

Storytelling for STEM Subjects

Posted in Blog Posts, Digital & Media Literacy, Elementary & Middle Years, Learning Design & Planning, Remote teaching & learning | Tagged with gender equality, math, science, STEAM, STEM, storytelling, Teacher Use

Using the art of storytelling to teach STEM subjects. “Maybe stories are just data with soul” – from TED Talk “The Power of Vulnerability” by Brené Brown Storytelling can be an effective method for engaging students with STEM subject areas – and this has been shown to be the case for girls especially (1, 3, 4). […]

Design-Based Learning: STEM and Simple Machines

Design-Based Learning: STEM and Simple Machines

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, engSTEAM, mathSTEAM, sciSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, design challenge, design thinking, design-based learning, science, simple machines, STEAM, STEM

Watching children play, particularly very young children, we can see they behave scientifically. Children observe and collect. They wonder and deduce, and they’re methodical. They collaborate – sometimes! – and when they’re puzzled, they experiment and make adjustments. At whatever age STEM learning occurs, though, make no mistake: it is real STEM learning, not mere […]

Secondary Science: some possibilities for digital tech integration

Secondary Science: some possibilities for digital tech integration

Posted in Blog Posts, sciSTEAM, techSTEAM | Tagged with emerging technology, science, STEAM, STEM, tech integration

One cannot truly experience science without experiencing its technological dimension. As a result, emergent technologies have increasingly shaped students’ experiences with science as well as influenced their relationships with natural/physical world. (Oliveira et al, 2019) This fall, I had the pleasure once again of working with two of our Science Ed instructors, Leslie Johnstone and […]


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