“All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and  playing around with things.”   —  Stephanie Kwolek , chemist who inven...

Gold fever! It's what drew thousands of men to California in 1849 and it still sparks student excitement and dreams of wealth today! ...

Teamwork. . . collaboration. . . thinking outside the box. . . revising . . . growth mindset. . .  STEAM challenges reinforce all these ...

After students have learned about the regions of California, we connect each region to its natural resources and which Indian tribes had acc...

New science standards. . . this year has been a learning curve for me! Not only are there the new Next Generation Science Standards , but I...

STEM and STEAM are all the rage right now, but I don’t want to just do activities “for fun”. I want my students to understand the ...

There's nothing like a good STEM challenge created by my friend, Kerry Tracy , to motivate students and engage them in problem solving ...

I know this post is late, but Spring Break got in the way. . . I just had to share our Leprechaun Lockdown Challenge!! Just in time for St. ...

Oh my goodness, I've been wanting to try more STEAM activities and what a fun morning we had!! Kerry at Plans for a Better Tomorrow cre...

Most of you know I run my math time as a workshop. (You can read more about that here .) One of the most important rotations is "Hands-...

Welcome back to Kristin Vanderlip Taylor's guest post on a fabulous Arts Integration lesson! Kristin: This arts integration lesson...