ST(R)EAM:
Ramp Up Your Literacy Lessons with STEAM Integration
Amanda Cramer & Carla Marchant
Hoover City Schools
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ST(R)EAM: Ramp Up Your Literacy Lessons with STEAM Integration Amanda Cramer & Carla Marchant Hoover City Schools Welcome! Background on Presenters Connect with us: @TeamCramer3rd @MarchantTeacher 2 Why Todays
ST(R)EAM:
Ramp Up Your Literacy Lessons with STEAM Integration
Amanda Cramer & Carla Marchant
Hoover City Schools
Welcome!
× Background on Presenters × Connect with us: × @TeamCramer3rd × @MarchantTeacher
2Why STEAM?
3“Today’s educational paradigm is no longer one of knowledge transfer but one of knowledge creation and curation. The “cells and bells” model had been prevalent for more than a century, but it is no longer relevant for today’s learners.”
What is powerful today? “...the power to create knowledge, evaluate it, apply it, and collaborate with others to capitalize on it.”.
DLCS
Where are we and why?
45 Strands of the Alabama DLCS
“The Course of Study standards are designed for use by educators across the curriculum at every grade level, so that these skills are cultivated throughout a student’s academic career (2016 ISTE Standards for Students).”
5In two or three columns
Yellow Is the color of gold, butter and ripe
spectrum of visible light, yellow is found between green and
Blue Is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. It is located between violet and green on the optical spectrum. Red Is the color of blood, and because of this it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger and courage.
7What does this look like?
8Literature that Lends Itself...
9What can a box be?
Chris Monroe Books
11Kobi Yamada Books
Andrea Beaty Books
Art
Nursery Rhymes, Fairy tales and Folktales
15Early Stem Chapter books
Goldie Blox by Stacy McAnulty Zoey and Sassafras by Asia Citro Frank Einstein by Jon Scieska Franny K. Stein by Jim Benton Calpumia Tate, Girl Vet by Jacqueline Kelly Phineas L. MacGuire… by Frances O’Roark Ada Lace, on the Case by Emily CalandrelliOlder Chapter Book Series
Chasing Vermeer by Balliet Secret Coders Gene Luen Yang The Invention of Hugo Cabret Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab by Bob Pflugfelder The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer Ellie Engineer by Jackson Pearce Girls Who Code by Stacia Deutsch EngiNerds by Jarrett Lerner Minecraft Series HowToons by Saul Griffith and Joost Bonsen Hello Ruby Series by Linda LiukasNonfiction
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark Grace Hopper Queen of Computer Programming by Laurie Wallmark A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jennifer Bryant Ruby Goldberg’s Bright Idea by Anna Humphrey Who Is… Series Who Was … Series Girls Think of Everything by Catherine Thimmesh The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca The Dr. With an Eye by Julia Finley Mosca Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly How to Build a Hug: Amy Guglielmo & Jacqueline Tourville Other STEM Book IdeasLiteracy Integration African American Biography Projects
Link to Standards
How can it be done?
20STEAM on a budget - HOW?
21 Consumables Boxes Paper Towel Rolls Toilet Paper Rolls Fabric Lego’s Craft Sticks String Q-Tips Wooden Dowels Tissue Paper Feathers Consumables Buttons Tape Beads Cotton Balls Plastic Spoons, etc. Straws Paper Markers Play-Doh Pipe Cleaners Pom-Poms Non-Consumables Legos Pattern Blocks Unifix Cubes Blocks Square Tiles Magnets Marbles Hot Wheels Cars Ramps Magnetic Marble Run Tangrams Pool NoodlesSplurge a Little
Engineering
Goldie-Blox Kits Roloblox Make-Do Tool Set Tubelox K’Nex Magformers Rig-A-Ma-Jig Rig-A-Ma-Jig, Jr’s Lego Wall PeradixCoding
Dash and Dot Sphero BeeBot BlueBot Ozobots Osmo Lego WeDo 2.0 LittleBits Makey-Makey Lego MindstormsDigital Tools
FlipGrid Book Creator Adobe Spark PowToon Glogster Canva Storybird Buncee Nearpod Minecraft EDU Bloxels Pixton
Brainstorming Template
STEAM Integration Template
Twitter & Instagram
@TeamCramer3rd @MarchantTeacher
innovatingdivas@gmail.com
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