Session Two - Unraveling History Through Mysteries: Leveraging Historical Fiction to Explore Primary Sources

Explore how to locate and use primary sources to build a STEAM Stories Experience. First, you’ll be immersed in a STEAM Stories Experience based on the book The Detective’s Assistant by Kate Hannigan. Then we’ll engage in a workshop that focuses on integrating historical fiction narratives with primary sources, encouraging students to explore and analyze history in a meaningful way.

Session Two - Robots in the Wild: Fostering Civic Action Through Literature

Experience the Robots in the Wild STEAM Stories Experience inspired by the Wild Robot trilogy by Peter Brown. We’ll take part in a guided session on how to connect literary exploration with civic engagement, helping students better understand local environmental issues and empowering them to take action within their communities.

Session One - Robots in the Wild: Fostering Civic Action Through Literature

Experience the Robots in the Wild STEAM Stories Experience inspired by the Wild Robot trilogy by Peter Brown. We’ll take part in a guided session on how to connect literary exploration with civic engagement, helping students better understand local environmental issues and empowering them to take action within their communities.

Virtual Book Club

An online space for reflection and discussion surrounding the monthly book we are reading.

STEAMing It Up Conference 2024

STEAMing It Up Conference 2024. Conference content site. 

Building STEAM April (In-Person)

Unraveling History Through Mysteries: Leveraging Historical Fiction to Explore Primary Sources

Explore how to locate and use primary sources to build a STEAM Stories Experience. First, you’ll be immersed in a STEAM Stories Experience based on the book The Detective’s Assistant by Kate Hannigan. Then we’ll engage in a workshop that focuses on integrating historical fiction narratives with primary sources, encouraging students to explore and analyze history in a meaningful way.

Surviving Nature: How to Use Fiction and Non-fiction Pairings to Create Engineering Design Challenges

Immerse yourself in the world of natural disasters and severe weather as we participate in the STEAM Stories Experience: Surviving Nature, inspired by the I Survived books by Lauren Tarshish. We’ll then work together in a guided session – learning how to leverage fiction and non-fiction books to deepen students’ understanding of science and the human experiences related to natural disaster events. This session will focus on creating engineering design challenges that incorporate science, problem solving and collaborative teamwork.

Building STEAM Workshop (in-person)

Building STEAM (Virtual)