Updated: May 12, 2022
According to Live Science.com, "S.T.E.M. is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach." People in S.T.E.M. related jobs use their knowledge in those specific areas to solve real-life problems.
S.T.E.M. also stimulates growth in areas like:
These are all critical skills that are needed in any profession. Enhancing our children's S.T.E.M. education is imperative to their success and will help them become innovators of the future.
The way we search for and receive products, services, and information is changing rapidly. Our children need to start learning and practicing these critical principles now so that they can become the future innovators our world needs.
With many children transitioning to online learning, you may be concerned that they are spending too much time on their computers and tablets. Here are some activities that your children can do that does not require any screen time!
This activity teaches your child about conditionals, specifically If and Then!
In this activity, your child will use computational thinking (taking a large problem, breaking it down, and understanding it in simpler terms) and create an algorithm (a set of simple instructions) to build a Lego structure!
Let's make a bracelet using Binary code with the help of the ASCII(American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
Read more about STEM by visiting:
https://www.eduporium.com/blog/eduporium-weekly-stem-education-in-the-pandemic-era/