Are you ready for your students to imagine, construct, create, and innovate?

1. Getting Started with Inquiry-
Based STEM Labs
Are you ready for your students to imagine,
construct, create, and innovate?
Presented by: Susan Wells,
Founder CEO TechTerra Education

2. Today is a nuts and bolts maker session of active learning
incorporating inquiry based thinking into your hands-on
STEM makerspace. You will have hands-on experience in
this workshop with tangible and digital tools of the STEM
Maker Lab to maximize exploring coding, robotics, circuitry
and electronics, micro- controllers, augmented and virtual
reality, and invention kits. Explore resources available for
creating your own inquiry-based activities for your classroom.

3. Why STEM and Maker Ed?
• Constructivism
• Creating not Consuming
• Innovation

4. Jobs Today and Tomorrow
https://www.ed.gov/stem

5. Learning Today
Not left brain or right brain but One Brain. Suggests Greg
Watts, dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design at
the University of North Texas
Honoring 4’s Cs
Creation
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
Communication

6. Teaching Today
Personalized
Project-based
Competency-based
Student autonomy-focused
Inquiry-based
Driven more by a learner's questions than by a
teacher's lessons. Teaching "how to learn" is more
important than any particular information being
presented.

7. Spaces

12. "Makerspaces are increasingly being looked to as a
method for engaging learners in creative, higher-order
problem-solving through hands-on design, construction,
and iteration” –New Media Consortium Horizon Report K-
12 Edition

13. Tools and Resources

20. Remember Print Resources

21. Organizing for Project-based Learning
Coding Tools Robotics
Invention Kits AR/VR
Digital Fabrication Circuitry &
Electronics
Making & Design Drones

22. Students are...
Engaged
Invested
Problem-solvers
Confident
Working with powerful tools & powerful ideas
Involved in authentic work for the real world

23. Susan Wels
Founder CEO TechTerra Education
ISTE Mobile Learning Network President
susan@techterraeducation.com
http://www.techterraeducation.com
@techterraed
@wellssusans