This podcast features recorded audio from a videoconference by Vinnie Vrotny (@vvrotny) on May 12, 2016. His presentation was part of a 4 hour workshop at Casady School in Oklahoma City on “Visioning the Future of Computer Science and STEM Education in K-12 Schools.” Vinnie discussed his experiences as a teacher and director working in Chicago-area and Houston-area independent schools helping develop updated computer science / digital literacy courses, curricula, and STEM / MakerSpace learning spaces for students as well as teachers. The podcast concludes with an audio reflection recorded by participants at the end of the workshop, sharing some of the key takeaways and learning points from the day. In addition to teachers and staff from Casady School, we were also joined by several community representatives from higher education as well as a local software design company during this workshop. Many thanks to Vinnie for sharing his experiences, perspectives, and advice to assist our faculty and staff as we work to envision a future program of computer science and STEM learning at Casady School. This podcast was originally posted on STEM.casady.org and cross-posted to STEMseeds.org. Refer to the podcast shownotes for referenced resources and links from the presentation.
Original Opinion Podcast created as a summative recording at the conclusion of the institute (a Spanish portion was edited out of the STEMseeds.org version.)
In our fourth STEM seeds webcast, 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 a grade 3-4 elementary classroom STEM teacher in Wells, Maine, and maintains a blog about some of his classroom STEM lessons. Links to referenced resources are listed in the shownotes below and on our Google Doc for STEMSeeds show notes.Thanks to our Google Hangout viewers for sharing lots of additional links! We did have some audio echo challenges about 20 minutes into our show but we got them resolved, so please don’t give up when you hear that part!
The Google Hangout on Air YouTube video for this episode was converted to an audio-only format with snipmp3.comand normalized using the free online service, Auphonic.
4th and 5th grade teacher Amy Loeffelholz in Yukon, Oklahoma, is using printed “STEM Notebooks” in Spring 2014 with her students. These notebooks include project information like goals, lab forms, recording sheets, vocabulary activities, and more. Each student has a copy of this STEM notebook in their folder to use and write on. A scanned PDF of Amy’s 5th grade STEM notebook is available. Its 68 pages include the following sections:
Grouping Sheet (p 2)
Measurement Intro (p 3 – 14)
Length Lab (p 15 – 22)
Weight Measurement Lab (p 23 – 25)
Measure to Measure (p 26 – 30)
Metric Mania (p 31 – 32)
Pringles Challenge (p 33 – 39)
By Golly by Gum (p 40 – 44)
Mint Race Carts (p 45 – 47)
Catapults (p 48 – 53)
Prosthetics (p 54 – 57)
Bag the Beans (p 58 – 59)
Pop Fly (p 60 – 61)
Tanagrams (p 62 – 65)
Grid Paper, Brainstorming, Grouping (p 66 – 68)
Note: This file was updated on 4/11/2014. The original was 70 pages, some of the above page numbers may be slightly off.
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