[Catalist] STEM - no philosophy, no definition, but a set of opportunities nonetheless

[Mark Gargano (St Joseph's School)]

Roy, Leon and Graham,

I was recently at a conference were a couple of US educators took it to a whole new level, try ISSTEAMM; Innovation, Science, Space, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Medicine... anyone left?

I guess this is one way to ensure you have got it all covered for grant submissions!

Regards,

Mark Gargano
Curriculum Coordinator (Teaching and Learning)
Years 7 to 12
St Joseph's School
Northam WA 6401


> On 6 Oct 2017, at 8:33 am, Leon Harris <leon at quoll.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Roy,
> Yes, I did something similar for microbial fuel cells.
> We made a few, measured voltage over weeks, fed it glucose etc, and then went out to Ralf Cords lab at Murdoch to see how they did it. Done as a science club, and sent off to win a years subscription to Helix. However, you are on the mark when you say that we don't yet have the structure to award marks for such things. This was done after school as a club.
> 
> However, replacing a ticker timer lab in a Y11 Physics class with something more modern, and interesting, and giving another way of looking at the ratio that is acceleration was quite worthwhile, and in my opinion did "cut it". A whole load of kids used up a double and some homework to do some rather nice integration of ict/math/coding and science, including kids who had never seen code before. Of course, this was a few years ago, when iphone 4s were still cool!
> 
> This leads to another aspect of STEM problem - do we focus on the exemplars, or do we take a "science for all" approach? How do we balance distributing our resources across those two priorities?
> 
> Thanks for the replies so far, this is getting interesting!
> 
> Cheers,
> Leon
> 
> 
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