Anne Jolly | STEM by Design

December 16, 2024

The New Edition of STEM by Design Emphasizes Real-World Problems

Exciting news! The second edition of STEM by Design was published December 16, 2024 and is now available for order! Look for the complete 2nd Edition update of this website no later than January 2, 2025. The 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 in our rapidly changing world.

Anne's Blog / Back to School

August 22, 2022

5 Things New STEM Teachers Can Do Right Now

Recent teacher ed graduate? Newly emergency certified? An experienced teacher who’s learned you’ll be teaching STEM this year? Here are five “do this first” tips from STEM curriculum designer, industry consultant and former state teacher of the year Anne Jolly.

Anne's Blog / Summer Learning Loss

July 10, 2017

STEM & Summer Learning Loss

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.

Anne's Blog / Summer STEM Fun!

May 24, 2017

8 Tips for Planning Summer STEM Fun

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!

Anne's Blog / STEM Teacher Leadership

December 6, 2016

STEM Teacher Leadership: Building Relationships with Colleagues

STEM teacher leaders need facilitation skills to work successfully with teacher teams and individual teachers, parents, and others. Anne Jolly, a veteran teacher leadership consultant, shares tips for building relationships with STEM colleagues. Download the PDF!

Anne's Blog / STEM Lesson Design

October 3, 2016

EdWeek Teacher: Designing a Successful STEM Lesson

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!

Anne's Blog / Improving STEM Lessons

August 22, 2016

Here’s a Tool to Help “Debug” Your STEM Lessons

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.

Design Tools / SBD Design Tools

July 5, 2016

28 STEM By Design Teaching Tools

Anne Jolly’s book STEM by Design includes 28 design tools. These resources will help STEM teachers and program leaders create curriculum, write lessons, build student teams, and engage colleagues and communities. You’ll find free downloads at this page!

Book Excerpts / Realistic STEM Challenges

July 5, 2016

STEM Problems Students Can Really Address

Problem-solving is fundamental to STEM. But coming up with real-world engineering challenges for students to solve can be tricky. Anne Jolly shares some ideas and resources STEM educators can use to help students select realistic problems they can address.

Analyzing STEM Lessons / Book Excerpts

July 4, 2016

How to Analyze a Lesson for STEM Potential

You’ve located a possible STEM lesson, but how can you be sure it’s of good quality? First and foremost the lessons need to be shaped by STEM principles and criteria. Check out Anne Jolly’s specifications and see how she analyzes potential teaching material.

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