Full Steam Ahead: Girls as STEM Scholars

Good Morning radio listeners- you are listing to the Intel Teachers Engage Digital Buzz radio show. I am your host Naomi Harm, coming to you live from Brownsville, MN today. It is a rainy and dreary day in the Midwest, but we are here to cheer you up from those rainy day blues with today’s focus of “Full STEAM Ahead: Inspiring Girls to Become STEM Scholars” within Your Mobile Learning Environment. This radio show will cover enrichment activities, online websites and mobile learning apps to engage, motivate and inspire the love for learning of a STEAM career. It will also Identify the importance of “STEAM” female mentors for girls in the ‘STEAM” classroom and note how to create an after-school "STEAM TEAM" camp or after school program within your school or district.I have attached for your review a PDF of the “Full STEAM Ahead: Inspiring Girls to Become STEM Scholars” presentation.Here are all the resources mentioned today:Female Mentors: WITS On https://piazza.com/witson Stem Connector http://stemconnector.org/100women •40 Important STEM Resources For Women http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/10/40-important-online-resources-women-stem •I Was Wondering http://iwaswondering.org •National Girls Collaborative Project http://www.ngcproject.org/•Science: It’s A Girl http://science-girl-thing.eu/en/splash •CanteenGirl http://canteengirl.org/library •Edheads http://www.edheads.org •Edumedia http://www.edumedia-sciences.com/en •Explain Everything Jigsaw•Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu •Explore Learning http://www.explorelearning.com •Intel STEM Resources http://goo.gl/GXKXK •K12 Videos at MIT http://k12videos.mit.edu •My Physics Lab http://www.myphysicslab.com •PhET http://phet.colorado.edu •UW-Madion Learning Objects http://learningobjects.madisoncollege.edu •The Physics Classroom http://www.physicsclassroom.com Brooke Martin invented an interactive dog treat dispenser! Watch Brooke presenting her IC Pooch invention. http://www.icpooch.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S-SVHUvddk Edutopia Article http://www.edutopia.org/blog/stem-high-interest-projects-girls-suzie-boss •Intel: K12 STEM Education Intel® EducationDesign and Discovery CurriculumIntel Elements - Inquiry in the Science Classroom: Free Online Interactive Course - https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/k12/teach-elements.html STEM Unit PlansThe Journey InsideSkoolSTEM PDF - https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/intel-in-education.html? Lego Female Scientist Figurine At last! LEGO creates a female scientist minifigure - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/07/lego-scientist-woman_n_3882380.html All STEAM apps are listed and linked in the attached presentation found here: http://engage.intel.com/thread/19062