Show 23: Excerpt - Power Tools & Marshmallows! Teaching "STEM"
Submitted by Sarah Gonzales
on March 3, 2011 - 11:45am 
In Scott McKim’s 6th grade applied technology class at Begich Middle School, students are using computers and power tools to build catapults and design buildings. They are learning via the Anchorage School District's new STEM approach to teaching Science Technology Engineering & Math.
Contributor Jessica Cochran spoke with Mr. McKim (who provided these photos of his class hard at work), and with Michael Fenster, the district's STEM curriculum coordinator about how middle school students are making the connections between these four fields through hands-on learning.
Talking about raising Alaska's future today!
|
LISTEN ON:       |
|
Looking for Find something by |
|
|
THE KTD MOM
COLLECTION
CONNECT
WITH KTD!
WITH KTD!
  This show is made possible by the Association of Alaska School Boards’ Initiative for Community Engagement, an initiative funded by the US Dept. of Education to provide Alaskans with information, tools and assistance to work together and engage in the shared responsibility of preparing Alaska’s children and youth for the future. |