STEM

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STEM English Language Learners
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Stacy Avery

• Transformation 2013

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Purpose/Outcomes

• Common understanding of STEM
• Experience STEM lesson
• Learn how STEM supports ELL

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What is STEM?

• Science
• Technology
• Engineering
• Math

Using technology and engineering principles to
bridge science, math and other subjects.
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What is Technology?

• Shoes
• Subway
• Cellular phone
• Bridge
• Book
• Television
• Can opener

• Cup
• Factory
• Bandage
• House
• Power lines
• Bicycle
• Pencil

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What is an engineer? What do they do?

• Repair cars (80)
• Install wiring (75)
• Drive machines (train) (71)
• Construct buildings (70)

• Only a few said..
• Design things (32)
• Work in teams (27)

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What is engineering?

• to lay out, construct, or manage
• to guide the course of
• to contrive or plan out usually with more or less
  subtle skill and craft
• a designer or builder of engines
• one who skillfully or shrewdly manages an
  enterprise

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What is STEM Education?

• Teaching and learning strategies that challenge
  students to innovate and invent
• Integration of math, science, and technology with
  other subject areas
• The use of the design process to drive student
  engagement

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How do we help students make sense of the world
and solve new and novel problems?
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What are effective practices for working with
ELLs?
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How does STEM fit with ELL best practices?
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Cup Stack
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• Constraints
• Cant touch the cups with hands or ANY body part
  even if it falls
• Must use all 15 cups and 1 rubber band ray
• 30 seconds to practice
• 1 minute 15 seconds to complete

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Purpose

• Experience design process
• Learn from each attempt
• Collaborate with others
• Cooperate with others
• Problem Solve with others
• Communicate with others

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What does STEM mean for teachers and students?
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Attributes of a STEM Classroom

• Active and engaging lessons (relevant and real
  world)
• Equipped to support spontaneous questioning as
  well as planned investigation
• Center for innovation and invention
• Supportive of teaching in multiple modalities
• Serves students with a variety of learning styles
  and abilities

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Attributes of a STEM Classroom

• Teaching by
• Incorporating engineering design principles and
  appropriate technology into lessons
• Engineering courses

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Attributes of a STEM student

• Problem-solvers
• Innovators
• Self-reliant
• Logical thinkers
• Technologically literate
• Sense of identity

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Scientific, Math, Engineering
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STEM Across Texas
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T-STEM Academies
North Irving Academy Harmony Science Waxahachie
ISD Dallas ISD (Conrad HS) Richardson ISD Peak
Academy-Williams Prep Carrollton-Farmers Branch
ISD Uplift
T-STEM Academies
Panhandle New Deal ISD Harmony Science

• Design
• Mix of public charter schools, traditional public
  schools
• Stand alone or school-within-a-school
• Approximately 100 students per grade
• Secondary schools
• Serve a population with a majority representation
  of high-need students
• Open enrollment, non-selective, admission by
  lottery

Central AJ Moore - Waco ISD Texas BioSci - Temple
College Manor ISD Rapoport Harmony Science
West Burnham Wood Harmony Science Canutillo
ISD El Paso ISD
South Harmony Science North East ISD
Corpus Christi IDEA Academy (2) La Sara
ISD Valley View ISD School of Excellence Galveston
ISD
East Carver HS - Aldine ISD YES Prep SE Harmony
School of Excellence KIPP Houston Harmony Science
(3) Longview ISD Fruitvale ISD Houston ISD
Early Innovators 2006 Academies 2007
Academies 2008 Academies
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T-STEM Centers
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Transformation 2013

• Partnership between ESCs 13 20
• Partners have a unique role
• Partners include
• Skillpoint Alliance
• Alamo Worksource
• Cockrell School of Engineering
• National Center for Technological Literacy (NCTL)
  Museum of Science, Boston
• Taylor HS Edison HS
• IBM
• National Instruments

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Transformation 2013

• Initial funding September 2006
• Initial funding 2 year cycle
• 1.2 million in initial 2 year cycle (600,000 each
  year)
• Continuation funding application available 5/2008
  for year 3
• Outlook is positive for continuation funding
• Goal is to be self sustaining

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Role of Transformation 2013

• Design innovative science, technology,
  engineering, and math instructional materials
• Deliver professional development to high school
  teachers based on the effective practices and
  innovative solutions
• Train administrators, principals, and teachers in
  effective leadership strategies for supporting
  innovative math and science instruction in
  secondary schools
• Provide technical assistance and instructional
  support for STEM implementation

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Products/services

• Research based professional development
• Problem based
• 5E model
• Focus on instructional coaching and support
• Incorporate 21st century skills
• Provide collaborative learning environments
• Integrate science, math and other subjects
  utilizing engineering design principles

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Transformation 2013 Staff

• Region 13
• Stacy Avery, Coordinator
• stacy.avery_at_esc13.txed.net
• Region 13
• Cassandra Ricks
• Innovation Coach, STEM Math Specialist
• cassandra.ricks_at_esc13.txed.net
• Region 20
• Julie Webb
• PDI Coordinator, STEM Science Specialist
• julianne.webb_at_esc20.net

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PBL Problem/project based learning
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Everest Trek
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• On the border of Tibet and Nepal, among the
  beautiful Himalayas, lies the highest mountain in
  the world, Mount Everest. Often referred to as
  The Top of the World, Mount. Everests peak
  stands at 8,850 meters above sea level. Imagine
  standing atop a stack of 5,000 people piled
  head-to-toe!

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• An adventure team from your school has read about
  some famous mountaineers who have managed to
  summit this great peak and want to take on the
  challenge for themselves.

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• Using your imagination and developing engineering
  design skills, you will be joining the adventure
  team on the trek of a lifetime, battling extreme
  climate conditions, as you journey to the top of
  the world!

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Mount Everest 29,035 feet 8,850 meters
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Design Challenges

• Design a coat to protect your team members from
  Everests year-round harsh, frigid weather
  conditions
• Design a lightweight bridge to safely cross a
  dangerous ice crevasse
• Design an emergency zip-line transportation
  system to safely and quickly bring your sick
  teammates down the mountain.

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Additional information

• Climbing challenges
• Survival Gear
• Teamwork

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Food for thought

• Have you ever been caught outside in cold weather
  without a coat?
• Why is it dangerous for the human body to be
  exposed to freezing temperatures without proper
  protection?

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Weather Report

• Extreme temperatures on the glacier-covered
  mountain
• January-Summit temperatures averages -33F and
  can drop as low as -76F
• July-summit temperatures is -2F
• NO time is it ever above freezing
• For our trip average temperature -15F

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Food for thought

• How do you keep warm when it is cold?
  (insulators)
• What materials make up insulators?
• What characteristics of the material make it an
  effective insulator?
• Of the 4 materials.. Which will be the best to
  design your coat? worst? Why?

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Testing the material
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Questions/Comments
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Transformation 2013 Staff

• Region 13
• Stacy Avery, Coordinator
• stacy.avery_at_esc13.txed.net
• Region 13
• Cassandra Ricks
• Innovation Coach, STEM Math Specialist
• cassandra.ricks_at_esc13.txed.net
• Region 20
• Julie Webb
• PDI Coordinator, STEM Science Specialist
• julianne.webb_at_esc20.net

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www.transformation2013.org