Listen and learn: Ed talk 
Streaming Session
Recorded Session
Participants will be able to take away ideas from a successful K-1 STEM program to implement in their own early childhood environment.
NC STEM Schools of Distinction will be shared and demonstrate how it was used to focus on program outcomes and reach our goals.
Lessons. tasks and challenges will be shared with participants as well as design outline which includes the engineering and design process.
Videos and picture models will be shown highlighting student success.
Components will focus on
How we got started and challenges were overcome. Teacher statements will be shared.
Using the NC STEM Rubric to help guide our program
Lessons, Jr. Challenges and Stations - problem based learning
Where we are now and what we are planning for the future.
About two-thirds of our time will be focused on the problem based learning tasks, how they are created and showing video and picture examples of students engaged in projects. This time will also include a hands on task for participants to try and a lesson to take with them.
We also plan to use a remote presenter to give a live tour of the Maker Space areas in our School.
The remaining time will be used to discussion challenges and successes along with a discussion on how participants can use what they learned to begin a program in their school.
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