STEM

Spin Class: Drop Spindles and Textiles

Posted in 4-7, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, artSTEAM, Blog Posts, Elementary & Middle Years, Not Subject Specific, Post Secondary, sciSTEAM, Secondary | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, fibres, podcast, Podcasts, 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!

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 […]

Programmation glisser-poser : Scratch

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, Resource | Tagged with ADST, algorithms, app, apps, coding, Free, french, lesson planning, STEM, Teacher Use

Scratch est un langage de programmation glisser-poser pour les enfants de tous âges pour apprendre les bases du codage. C’est gratuit et disponible comme application de web ou de bureau. ScratchJr pour les enfants de 5 à 7 ans est disponible sur les tablettes Android et iOS. Scratch vous permet de créer tout ce que vous voulez […]

Squishy Circuits

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, English, Post Secondary, Resource | Tagged with ADST, circuitry, circuits, Free, math, science, STEM

Squishy Circuits is a hands-on way for students to explore electrical circuitry using simple, readily available materials including dough (conductive and non-conductive playdough), LED lights and batteries. Students can construct their understanding of electric circuits and even design and create their own inventions. Through a play based approach students can discover simple, parallel and series […]

Ozobot: Smart and social robot

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, English, K-3, Not Subject Specific, Paid, Resource | Tagged with ADST, app, coding, programming, robot, robotics, robots, sandbox session, science, STEM, Teacher Use

Ozobot is a miniature smart robot that can follow drawn lines or roam around freely, detect colors and can also interface with all the popular programming languages (especially Python), and it has Bluetooth for downloading programs! With Ozobot students will have hands-on opportunities to learn about robotics and programming while working on STEM/STREAM (Science, Technology, […]