Anne's Blog / My Second Edition
by Anne Jolly · Published August 29, 2024 · Last modified August 30, 2024
Exciting news! The second edition of STEM by Design will be published by the end of the year. This revised and expanded edition homes in specifically on details to help you design quality integrated STEM projects to help your students become the creative thinkers, innovators, and collaborators our communities need for life in our rapidly changing world.
If your STEM projects need an occasional boost, give your students a chance to take their final prototypes beyond a conceptual level. Imagine your students thinking: Can our design really be produced and used – even if we can make only a few? Anne walks you through the process.
National STEM curriculum leader Dr. Susan Pruet offers her list of 13 traits or skills associated with effective STEM teachers. Anne Jolly writes: “She remarked that this STEM job description has been pretty well defined by research and experience over the past decade.”
by Anne Jolly · Published August 16, 2017 · Last modified September 11, 2022
Anne shares a great animated video from the National Academy of Sciences that gives a concise overview of “integrated STEM” and what it might look like in your classroom. After you watch, check all the resources she’s prepared to help teachers facilitate STEM learning.
Let’s put a stop to summer learning loss! Summer is a great time for informal learning and, given the right opportunities, kids can continue thinking, experiencing, and learning. Take a look at these ideas for STEM applications and see if any work for your kids.
Summer is almost here and it’s time for kids to officially forget everything they learned during the school year. Right? Well, maybe not right, writes STEM expert Anne Jolly, if schools, communities, and families keep the learning going. She has eight ideas!
A STEM launcher is a mini-lesson that reminds students to adopt an engineer’s mindset as they tackle and solve problems using the engineering design process. It’s helpful anytime you need to channel middle school energy in a productive way. Here’s one ready-made!
Education Week Teacher recently invited me to write about How to Design a Successful STEM Lesson. I think this is my best effort so far to condense STEM lesson design into 1000 words or less!
Several possible lesson design flaws may be sabotaging your students’ learning. Read my article “How to Debug a STEM Lesson Plan” at MiddleWeb. Then use this tool to see if your lesson passes the bug check. Be sure to give evidence to support your answers.
Do you ever talk to students about STEM careers in engineering? We really can’t expect them to appreciate the many interesting opportunities without some awareness raising. Author Anne Jolly has put together a 3-minute student awareness survey that can help.
