Developing STEM Practices & Mindset
Staff will model and facilitate opportunities for youth to use the science and engineering practices to develop a STEM mindset. Staff will support youth in answering questions and solving problems during learning experiences.
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Enabling Active STEM Learning
Staff and volunteers will be able to facilitate active STEM learning experiences.
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Modeling Science Practices
Staff and volunteers will facilitate opportunities for youth to apply science practices.
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Modeling Engineering Practices
Staff and volunteers will facilitate STEM learning experiences for youth to engage in engineering practices.
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Supporting Documentation of STEM Learning
Staff and volunteers will be able to support youth to use a variety of documentation strategies during STEM.
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Asking Purposeful Questions
Staff and volunteers will utilize purposeful questioning and feedback to increase youth learning in STEM.
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Reflecting & Processing Experiences
Staff and volunteers will deepen understanding and personal meaning-making for youth by facilitating opportunities for reflection.
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Making Authentic Assessments
Staff and volunteers will be able to evaluate what is learned by youth before, during, and after STEM activities.
Resources
Resources
Skill: Asking Purposeful Questions
Using Questions for Many Purposes
Asking purposeful questions helps learners develop the skills to be successful in STEM.
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Let There Be Light
Youth are given the challenge to build a simple circuit. The facilitator uses purposeful questions to support and direct their learning.
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Applying Strategies for Documenting STEM
Participants will document their learning with three activities: “Sink or Float,” “Paper Airplanes,” and “Amphibian/Fish Comparison”. They will also complete a self-reflection and set goals for their practice.
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Developing Your Best Strategies
Learn new strategies for documenting STEM learning.
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Skill: Modeling Science Practices
Using the Crosscutting Concepts – Patterns
Looking for, identifying, and using patterns is a vital concept in science and engineering
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Skill: Modeling Science Practices
Getting the Most Out of NGSS: Using the Crosscutting Concepts
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Crosscutting Concepts provide us with a great way to help youth bridge science learning across various contexts.
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What About Challenges?
Participants will reflect on programmatic challenges in order to add more active learning opportunities to their program.
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Making STEM Meaningful
Participants will apply strategies for making STEM meaningful to their upcoming activity plans to learn to get youth actively engaged in STEM learning.
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Make it Active
Participants will review strategies to get youth actively doing STEM in order to add more active learning opportunities to their program.
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