{"id":1498,"date":"2011-11-29T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2012-12-27T19:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T02:13:35","slug":"what-is-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/29\/what-is-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"What is STEM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My work as a grantee of one of the first WA STEM Entrepreneurial awards is very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonstem.org\/grantee-profiles.asp?gdx=1\">exciting<\/a>. I gotta say that doing this type of work is a great way to keep my job fresh. At a recent WA STEM grantee meeting I learned about the next level of the work. My work at school keeps me really focused through my narrow lens of working with middle level kids. The WA STEM project I&#8217;m working on helps me widen my lens by working with the other Science and Math teachers in our middle and high school in using social networking as a learning and sharing tool. Attending the last grantee meeting I was able to see Chimacum&#8217;s work as a tiny piece of a larger puzzle. That larger puzzle is improving STEM education in WA state. Sure, I knew that but it&#8217;s not something that I normally think about since I&#8217;m so focused on my students past and present (past because getting to work with the high school keeps me informed as to the progress of my former students &#8211; cool, huh?).<\/p>\n<p>To educate people about STEM and share some facts about STEM in WA I created the flyer shown here. On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonstem.org\/\">WA STEM website<\/a> there is some great information including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonstem.org\/images_load\/MEDIA_KIT.pdf\">their media kit<\/a> where I got the information included in the flyer and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonstem.org\/about-us.asp\">about WA STEM page<\/a>, which is cool because it tells about this wonderful organization. WA STEM is awesome and they are doing some amazing, cutting edge, innovative work and I am so glad to have been able to be a part of it. I&#8217;m a believer of educating the whole child and I support the arts and language and history and physical education and whatever else people are into but STEM is near and dear to me because I&#8217;ve been just teaching Science for seven years now and it has been fun! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n(If you can&#8217;t see the flyer then <a href=\"http:\/\/educatoral.com\/documents\/STEM.pdf\">click here<\/a> for a pdf.)<br \/>\n<a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Stem on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/118174605\/Stem\">Stem<\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_97925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/118174605\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-29x5n2zztxfdoi70k6cy\" height=\"600\" width=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.772727272727273\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My work as a grantee of one of the first WA STEM Entrepreneurial awards is very exciting. I gotta say that doing this type of work is a great way to keep my job fresh. At a recent WA STEM grantee meeting I learned about the next level of the work. 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