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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 […]

Spin Class: Drop Spindles and Textiles

Spin Class: Drop Spindles and Textiles

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, artSTEAM, K-3, sciSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, fibres, spindles, STEAM, STEM, textiles

Interdisciplinarity can be understood as a response to the rapid changes our world is facing today, particularly social, technological, and environmental changes. Yet interdisciplinarity does not advocate for an end to traditional subject disciplines. Rather, it calls on each discipline to “develop open, dynamic, and transactional approaches capable of depicting research in a network representation […]

UBC Seed Library: getting our hands dirty with making, creating, innovating!

UBC Seed Library: getting our hands dirty with making, creating, innovating!

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, artSTEAM, K-3, Not Subject Specific, sciSTEAM | Tagged with all class response, create make innovate, green screen, seed library, STEAM, STEAM session, STEM

Hands-on activities can be fun, even inspiring, and they’re a great way to introduce people to different concepts and new ideas, first-hand. Getting people active and chatting with each other helps get the ideas flowing… sometimes in ways we’d never thought of before, and sometimes with people we hadn’t realised have so much in common […]


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