1. Google Apps and STEM

2. Traditional Classroom VS. STEM

3. Agenda: What is STEM? Why is STEM important?
What does STEM look like in the classroom?
How can we utilize Google Apps to help integrate STEM into the classroom?

4. Objectives: Participants will…….
define STEM and describe how it will prepare our students with a 21st Century skill set.
compare a traditional classroom to a STEM classroom.
work collaboratively with peers to create solutions.
examine Google Apps and how they help teachers integrate STEM into their lessons.

5. What is 21st Century Learning?

6. What is STEM?
Science
Technology
Engineering
Mathematics

7. More Work? Is S.T.E.M. just one more thing to teach?
Will my workload increase?

8. Science: Evidence-based inquiry.
Method for obtaining, reliable, verifiable, knowledge about the universe around us.
What happens, how it happens, SOMETIMES why it happens.
Helps to explain and make discoveries about nature.

9. Technology:
is the application of of science AND engineering to achieve a useful enhancement of human ability and/or achieve a commercial or industrial object.
result of engineering is Technology

10. Engineering:
the creative PROCESS of designing and making something practical from science and math.

11. Mathematics:
the study of measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols.

12. I Choose C…...

13. The Marshmallow Challenge

14. Google Apps: Class Spreadsheet Class Doc
Record data for your final structure
Final Height
Materials used
Class Doc
Each group will record their trials and errors while completing their structure.
Through Google Apps STEM can occur outside and inside the classroom.

15. Traditional Classroom
Lecture
Notes
Classwork
Homework
Test

16. What Does STEM change?
Problem (let students decide how they are going to solve it)
Exploration
Choose your path
Pick your tools
Google
Constant Collaboration with teacher and/or peers
Organization
Web Search (Voice Search)
Apps (Speak It)
ADD-ONS

17. Thanks You For Attending