By Gillia Bakie | Corporate and Foundation Giving Manager
IT’S ELECTRIC!
YOUR GIFTS LIFT UP GREAT SCIENCE AND MATH TEACHERS
“Scientists, ready!” Classroom talk stops, backs straighten, and index fingers fly to temples, pointing at hard-working young brains. “OK, show me what happens inside a circuit,” says Kellie Goodman, turning to a chart illustrating the D cell battery, wire, and lightbulb her fourth-graders have been using for hands-on experiments.
This electricity lesson is based on a traditional elementary science kit. But there’s little traditional about the way Goodman -- who has been adapting the kits to meet new inquiry-based Next Generation Science Standards -- is teaching it.
“I used to not like science at all,” admits one earnest girl. “But when she teaches it, I know what to do. Now, I want to be a scientist when I grow up.”
You can watch Kellie Goodman at work in our latest STEM in Action video here.
WHERE ARE MY EXPLOSIONS?
Teachers ooh and ahh as they watch the flames explode, set on fire by white-hot electric rods plunging into a cauldron of recycled steel bits. They got this experience through a partnership between Washington STEM and Nucor Steel Seattle, a branch of an international company with a site based right in West Seattle.
Nucor Steel is working with a group of motivated STEM teachers to develop lesson plans based on environmentally friendly efficiencies, efficiencies which Nucor Steel invests in and supports. These lessons will help students learn about STEM careers close to home and are a great example of how great education partners – like Nucor Steel – can support STEM education inspiration. Learn more.
THE DOCTOR IS IN: GET YOUR STEM QUESTIONS ANSWERED
These are the types of questions our STEM Innovation team is tackling.
Your support makes it possible for STEM Innovation to identify the most effective solutions to the most challenging education problems – with imagination, iteration, and scientific methods.
Dr. Andy Shouse has joined us as our Chief Program Officer and is leading our innovation efforts. Andy would love to meet with you, learn more about your interest in STEM education, and answer any questions you have about our education system. Want to meet up? Feel free to reach out! Andy@washingtonstem.org. Learn more about Andy here.
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