Moving from Teaching STEM to Doing STEM

Getting kids engaged and excited about learning in the STEM Classroom

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Dr. Robin Ellwood moved from lecture to hands-on STEM with her eighth graders and shows us how. Robin’s students designed a remote underwater vehicle (ROV) that went to Antarctica. She was intimidated when she started thinking about it. But she learned it with the kids as she went.

What blows my mind is that Robin has her PhD and yet she still l...