Teacher Training By Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski

STEM education, it’s been the buzz acronyms in education for the past several years, and plenty of federal funding is being directed towards bringing STEM education into the classroom. The following photos are from a recent hands-on-minds-on inquiry based STEM program I conducted for elementary students. Students were actively engaged in conducting hands-on-minds-on explorations to investigate science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts. What’s neat about the explorations seen here, is that they are affordable. Basically it’s bringing STEM into the classroom on a shoestring budget. I also conduct STEM teacher training workshops and institutes, for more information check out my teacher training page on this website.

USA Today  (10/7, Vergano) reported that the U.S. Science and Engineering Festival begins this weekend and “will feature everything from Nobel laureates demonstrating experiments to lessons on outsmarting robots.” The festival will encompass events in 20 cities and end Oct. 23-24 “with thousands of hands-on scince activities and all-day performances from stages at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.” This year’s festival is sponsored by Lockheed Martin and will include stage shows hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the NIH, National Academies of Science and the Science Channel.