STEM Teacher Quality Initiative (STEM TQ) is a regional effort to develop teachers who can provide quality STEM learning experiences in their classroom. This year-long professional develop program focuses on creating STEM capable teachers who pass on their knowledge through their curriculum. A cohort of Lindbergh teachers (K-8) are participating in the program this year.
The teachers participating in the program are learning how to STEMitize their lessons to enhance the learning and help the students become STEM capable learners.
While attending a two week introductory institute, our teachers engaged in many ways to help bring the learning alive through a number of experiments, seminars and field trips.
Castlewood State Park
Participants spent time with a scientist from The Nature Conservancy working on problem solving and the integration of water, erosion and risk management. They spent the morning in the stream measuring for stream bank erosion and how to mitigate the damage.
Newton's Laws in real life
Participants built mousetrap race cars to experiment and demonstrate some of Newton's Laws of motion. They took our new learning and applied to the physics of racing and topped it off with climbing into the race cars at Pole Position and put that learning into action.
MilliporeSigma - Curiosity Lab
MilliporeSigma - Curiosity Lab
What is chemiluminescence and how does it happen? The group worked with scientists from MilliporeSigma on big ideas like how energy is absorbed or released in chemical reactions. Reading about it is one thing, watch a video is ok but when they had hands on with the chemicals it all came alive.
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