This workshop engages middle school educators in an integrated STEM lesson that focuses on designing a vehicle that wins it all! Using only recyclable boxes and lids, participants will create a vehicle and use it to unpack concepts of energy, friction, and gravity while practicing the process of problem-solving.
This workshop will introduce techniques on establishing a learning environment that values and demonstrates the benefits of diversity, confronts bias and bigotry, and expands students’ access to STEM education so they can grow, learn, and to be challenged and reach their full potential.
How can a Makerspace increase student achievement? How does a Makerspace address; diverse learners, increase student and teacher voice, professional development, and more? Learn how Concord Public Schools’ journey to designing a Makerspace opened the doors to creating opportunities that foster critical thinking, problem solving, and 21st century skills.
This session will help teachers and administrators develop their capacity to integrate the science and technology/engineering (STE) and ELA/Literacy standards. Participants will build a shared understanding of the complementary ELA/Literacy and STE standards by grade level and identify opportunities to integrate across content areas.
Shake lights are simply coils through which magnets are passed in order to generate electricity and light an LED. Working Model shake lights will be displayed and demonstrated. Methods for building and using as demonstrators will be discussed. Teaching and building materials and documentation will be provided.
With rising greenhouse gases, bio-engineers have learned to apply observations from decomposers towards biofuel solutions. In this workshop, learn to extract enzymes from mushrooms (based on their natural decomposing abilities/niche), optimize their reaction rates and model the genetic engineering of a bacterial plasmid (using genes from mushrooms) for biofuel production.
The development of brain-computer interface for accelerated adaptive learning is a groundbreaking idea for educational application of EEG headbands. The application of EEG data for accelerated identification of personal learning preference and neuro feedback will significantly improve the quality of the blended and online personalized education in schools.
Created by an award winning team from MIT, BioBuilder aims to make biological engineering and the new field of biodesign accessible to high school students. Discover how BioBuilder brings the newest in genetics into your classroom through free curricula, after school clubs, and professional development opportunities.
