154. How to Make Space for STEM

8/30/2024

Show Summary:

In this episode of The STEM Space, Claire and Natasha answer a question from a listener: “For those of you who teach multiple grades in a day, how do you organize all your stuff that goes with each class?” Claire, a K-8 STEM teacher, gives us all her tips and tricks for managing the STEM supply chaos!

Links from the Show:

Related The STEM Space Podcast Episodes

• 121. The Importance of Clear Communication in Science

• 44. How Do You Manage Your STEM Classroom?

• 125. Constraints in a STEM Classroom

Vivify STEM Blog Posts

• 10 Tips for Managing a STEM Classroom

• Top 10 Back to School STEM Tools!

Vivify STEM Lessons

• Back to School STEM: 6 Icebreaker Teamwork Activities (includes pipeline challenge)

• Editable Budget Sheet for Engineering Design Challenges (FREE in our TPT store or in our STEM Explorer Library)

• Roller Coaster STEM Challenge (K-5 or 6-8)

• Editable Teacher Slides for Engineering Design Challenges (FREE in our TPT store or in our STEM Explorer Library)

• Newspaper STEM Challenges

Other STEM Resources

• Don’t Wake the Dragon by Bianca Schulze

• Space Club - FREE!

• Communities in Schools - San Antonio (CISSA)

• Facebook: The STEM Space

• Claire’s STEM Organization finds:

  • Shelf brackets

  • Plastic bins

  • STEM composition notebook

  • More plastic bins

  • Makerspace bins

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