STEM Seeds Podcast (audio)

STEMseeds15: Reflections on Visioning STEM Learning

This is an audio reflection by Wesley Fryer following the March 14-15, 2016 STEM Institute at Graded School in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This two day professional development workshop for educators included engineering design projects, hands-on STEM projects in which participants collaboratively designed and built catapults as well as prosthetic hands, discussion and exploration of 3D printing and 3D design, "Curiosity Links," robotics, green screen videography, and other Maker Studio / Makerspace activity and project ideas. Access the full workshop curriculum, photos and videos from the workshop, and referenced resources on camp.stemseeds.org/home/march2016. Direct links to many of the resources mentioned in the podcast are also included the the shownotes. The next STEMseeds STEM workshop will be offered June 6-8, 2016, at Casady School in Oklahoma City. Please subscribe to and follow STEMseeds on Twitter for updates and additional STEM lesson ideas as well as resources! https://twitter.com/stemseeds

This is the recorded audio from a presentation by Michaela Freeland and Wesley Fryer on February 19, 2016, at the OMLEA Conference for MidLevel Teachers and Administrators in Oklahoma sponsored by CCOSA. The session description was: Come learn how our teachers, librarians, and students are using 3D Printers manufactured right here in Oklahoma! Our school library hosted a free "Playdate" PD event in November open to the community to encourage people to play with 3D design and 3D printing software, and use our 3D printers. Our teachers are offering after-school STEM club and activity-period STEM groups for students to engage in engineering design projects and other integrated projects using science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills. Our middle school students are using MinecraftEDU software to develop design skills and learn coding. We’re also offering summer camp STEM/STEAM workshops for students as well as teachers. Come learn practical ideas for STEM/STEAM learning you can bring back to your school! Access slides and resources from this presentation on http://bit.ly/omleastem as well as http://stemseeds.org.

STEMSeeds12: Engaging STEM Lesson Ideas (OTA Encyclo-Media 2015)

An archived Google Hangout video and audio recording of a STEMseeds interview with Vanessa Perez

STEMSeeds10: Lesson Ideas with Kylie Sanders

STEMSeeds9: Lesson Ideas with Kevin Jarrett

STEMseeds8: Lesson Ideas with Bethany Ligon

"Practical Lessons for Elementary STEM Integration"

Amy Loeffelholz and Wes Fryer discuss their starting lessons and start-of-school procedures in STEM class for this fall.

Chris Simon and Wesley Fryer discussed STEM lesson ideas and ways to engage students through STEM learning in an May 13, 2014, after-school Google Hangout.

Henry Ingwersen, Amy Loeffelholz, Crystal Butcher and Wesley Fryer discussed STEM programs, classrooms and lesson ideas on Thursday, April 17, 2014, in an after-school Google Hangout. Henry is an elementary classroom STEM teacher in Wells, Maine, and maintains a blog about some of his classroom STEM lessons. Check out this post on STEMseeds.org for all referenced links from the show, including links shared by our live Google Hangout audience.

In our third STEM seeds webcast, Oklahoma elementary educator and school STEM club sponsor Christie Paradise (@ChrisParadise on Twitter) shared lesson activities and projects she’s using with students this year. Christie’s school district, MidDel Public Schools, started STEM clubs at each elementary school during the 2012-13 school year. At Christie’s school, Steed Elementary, student STEM club members meet on Thursdays at 7:15 am before normal school classes begin. Elementary STEM clubs in MidDel focus primarily on BotBall and preparing for BotBall robotics competitions. Amy Loeffelholz and Wes Fryer also discussed their recent “STEM Showcase Day” in Yukon Public Schools prior to Spring Break, as we as grant and workshop ideas for upcoming months. Check out our show notes below, as well as our Show Notes Google Doc for links to referenced resources and lesson ideas. Many thanks to viewers who shared some of these links via our Google+ Hangout page.

In our second STEM seeds webcast, Nevada educator and regional K-12 STEM coordinator Brian Crosby (@bcrosby on Twitter) shared STEM lesson ideas he's used in his classroom and with other teachers. He also discussed "what STEM is and what it isn't," since that is often a point of misunderstanding among educators, and discussed several exciting collaborative projects he's done and is continuing to do with regional university partners as well as other educators. Brian is the co-author (with Lisa Parisi) of "Making Connections with Blogging: Authentic Learning for Today’s Classrooms," published in 2012 by ISTE. Brian has presented twice at TEDx conference events, "Back to the Future" in 2010 at TEDxDenver and in March 2011 at TEDxNYED. Lessons discussed included Cantilever Spans, Balloons that go up to 100,000' MSL while taking photos and sharing live GPS tracking coordinates, Kuiper Belt trans-Neptunian object (TNO) tracking, and more. Check out our show notes below, as well as our Show Notes Google Doc for links to referenced resources and lesson ideas.

In our first STEM seeds webcast, Amy Loeffelholz and Wesley Fryer share STEM lesson ideas they've been using this year in their classrooms. Amy is the grade 4-5 STEM teacher at Lakeview Elementary School, and Wes is the grade 4-5 STEM teacher at Independence Elementary School, both in Yukon Public Schools in Yukon, Oklahoma. Lessons discussed include a CSI / Forensics lesson, Kitchen Chemistry, Bridge Building, Alternative Energy / Wind Energy, and more. Check out our show notes below, as well as our Show Notes Google Doc for links to referenced resources and lesson ideas.