STEM Concepts

access to fresh water, clean air, or regions of fertile soil. Examples of factors that affect human activity could include rising sea levels causing humans to move farther from the coast, or humans building railroads to transport mineral resources from one location to another. ●​ Performance Expectations - Students should ask questions and analyze data related to the use of wood or solid fuel, compared to gas fuel or renewable energy sources such as solar or wind. The cause and effect of the combustion of various fuels will be compared. Making a Makerspace - This lesson will teach you some of the basics for starting a Makerspace in your school and some of the cool lessons you can teach with basic circuitry and augmented reality. Great Salt Lake Ecosystem - This lesson plan provides an eight-day flow of educational activities in which students use the Great Salt Lake ecosystem to explore food webs and how changes in living and nonliving factors affect different populations. The lesson fulfills Standards 6.4.3 and 6.4.4. Curriculum authored by Megan Black.

Vocabulary

●​ STEM Strategies ●​ STEM Competencies ●​ STEM Skills ●​ STEM Abilities