This week during Community STEM, our STEM Challenge involves choosing your favorite sport and designing or redesigning a piece of safety equipment. You must provide evidence of the need for such equipment, develop a prototype, and defend the costs involved. Develop an ad or commercial selling your product. You may work alone or with partners. Some Examples:
“What’s Cooking” STEM Challenge
Community STEM is tasting pretty good this week or at least it will be once you participate in this challenge. We are encouraging you to create a new food item for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack time. You will need to research food chemistry, develop the recipe for a new food, design the packaging, and plan
Bridges STEM Challenge
Welcome back to Community STEM and our next big STEM challenge. Who isn’t fascinated with bridges? I remember driving across bridges and holding my breath. I always wanted my dad to stop at the end of it so we could get out and look. I still have that fascination today. This STEM lab will encourage
The Huff and Puff STEM Lab
Community STEM is proud to introduce the “The Huff and Puff” STEM lab. Do you remember the story of “The Three Little Pigs”? Well the Big Bad Wolf had to practice his huffing and puffing every day before he met the pigs. In this STEM lab we will explore how he did this and what
Tiny House STEM Challenge
I’m so excited about this week’s STEM challenge. It seems as though every television channel you view has something to do with DIY (Do It Yourself). This week’s challenge is to build a tiny house. We will start with a easy model based on a fairy tale. 1st Challenge: So the three little pigs are pretty bummed
The Billy Goats Build a Raft!
This week on Community STEM we will combine a STEM activity with a classic fairy tale. That troll is up to his old tricks again. He insists that the Billy Goats cannot cross over his bridge. After a brief conversation, the Billy Goats decide that they wouldn’t be breaking the rules if they build a raft to cross the stream. Your task
Blast Off STEM Project
Welcome back to another week of Community STEM. We are ready to share another exciting STEM lab based on some current events. Students and teachers are fascinated by space. This STEM lab will allow creativity and collaboration through the building of a Moon Lander! Sonja Fehlmann, a DEN Star from California, will be introducing this
The Camping Trip Egg Drop
Every week we are sharing another great STEM activity that will inspire teachers and students. This week we will combine a fun family event with an old classic, “The Egg Drop.” This exciting challenge will be introduced by DEN Star, Kim Miller, from Boise, Idaho. Students will be asked to design a contraption that will
Community STEM Blog
Welcome to a new DE weekly blog for STEM activities. As educators, we all crave those extra activities that inspire our students and ourselves. Community STEM is just that project. This project was born out of a conversation at Albuquerque’s DENapalooza and continued to grow through many late night texts between North Carolina (Dacia Jones) and
How Social Media and DE Changed My World!
In 2009, I joined Facebook because everyone else was. I really had no idea what I was getting in to. I enjoyed the photos, the notifications, the statuses (well, most of them), and the adding of friends. For two years- I checked it every week and commented on things that really didn’t matter much to