Teaching should always be fun
Outdoor classroom design has become a popular aspect for many schools and classrooms. What’s the best way to design outdoor classrooms? How do you fund them? How do you use them? What benefits do they have? Let me break it down for you… and give you my one hardcore opinion about the whole concept. Outdoor Classroom Benefits Outdoor classroom benefits… Read More
Camping science sounds like fun to me! How in the world can we teach camping science in the classroom or virtually? Teachers are creative and this activity in STEAM certainly proves so. I began researching multiple ways that science and STEM/STEAM can be taught when camping, and thought, “I want to bring this to the classroom!” Currently, we are virtually… Read More
Summer STEM activities and project-based learning are great for keeping the summer exciting. I know… yeah right. Really, students, kids at home, families need something to focus on. I have two projects for this summer that will have student and families at home excited and having fun throughout the summer. What are they? Composting and growing a pollinator garden. Summer… Read More
Meet Neil DeGrasse Tyson Space STEM activities are out of this world. If you haven’t asked your students this spacey question yet,”Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson?”…. you need to right away! I can’t believe I just recently became aware of this wonderfully extraordinary human being. You know how you get asked, “If you could spend a day with anyone, dead… Read More
Each year I have the task of introducing the elements of STEAM learning to a new group of Kindergartners. As many of you know, the first few months of Kindergarten can be well…… interesting. Is that the right word? There are so many foundations and routines that need to put into place before these sweeties are ready to understand something… Read More
Literature based STEM activities are seriously how I love to begin any STEM/STEAM lesson. iHeartSTEAM Stories is a new creation of mine. The first edition to this series is Temple Grandin. Why should we teach students about her? Temple Grandin is one of the most unique people I have ever learned about. Temple was diagnosed with autism at an early… Read More
