The STEAM Team – engaging students through interactive and immersive learning

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource introduces the STEAM Team Academy, the brainchild of Dr Odesma Dalrymple, Dr Joi Spencer and Dr Perla Myers of the University of San Diego, USA. The academy highlights the importance of hands-on, community based learning in allowing students to connect concepts from STEAM to every aspect of their lives.
• This resource also contains interviews with Odesma, Joi and Perla. If you or your students have a question for them, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. They will reply!
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the team’s work, and provides instructions for playing Inequity Monopoly.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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