Inspirational STEM Role Models: Book Companions & Lab Experiments
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Description
Are you looking for a new way to engage students through STEM? Teaching your students about famous scientists, techies, engineers, and mathematicians can increase their desire to work in one of these career fields later in life. There are amazing men and women who have gone into a STEM field and are totally rocking it! We are going to explore some of their lives through this unit.
If you're interested to know more about each book that's featured in this resource, check out my blog post to catch a snippet of each one.
“Research from Microsoft has revealed that the number of girls interested in STEAM across Europe, on average, almost DOUBLES
when they have a role model to inspire them.”
-Microsoft Reporter (4/25/18)
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What's Included for Story Companions:
- List of books (If you don't have them, they are available online)
- Beginning, Middle, & End Retell
- Character Descriptions & Biographies
- Text to Self Connections
What's Included for Science Experiments:
- LEGO Maze, wind power
- Paper Airplanes, affect of weight
- Submarines, buoyancy and submersion
- Egg/Apple Drop journals, gravity
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If you have any questions, I'd love to hear from you
meg@brownesbunchofstem.com
