🔬 STEM Basics
What do the letters STEM stand for?
What are Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics?
What organ pumps blood throughout your body?
What is the heart?
What do we call the instructions written for a computer to tell it what to do?
What is code/programming?
What is a major in college?
What is the main subject or area of study a student chooses to focus on?
This professional designs buildings, bridges, roads, and other structures.
What is a civil engineer?
Which branch of science focuses on living things, including plants, animals, and humans?
What is biology?
What molecule carries genetic information and helps determine many of your inherited traits?
What is DNA?
What is a robot designed to do?
What is perform tasks automatically or semi-automatically using programmed instructions and/or sensors?
True or False: You have to know exactly what career you want before going to college.
What is False?
This career involves creating websites, apps, and computer programs.
What is a software developer/programmer?
What is the process of testing an idea through observation and experiments called?
What is the scientific method?
Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food. What is this process called?
What is photosynthesis?
An engineer creates a small working version of a product before building the final version. What is it called?
What is a prototype?
A student enjoys both art and technology. Name one career that could combine these interests.
Examples include UX/UI designer, video game designer, animator, architect, graphic designer, or digital artist.
Which STEM career would most likely involve studying diseases and developing new medicines?
What is a biomedical researcher/scientist?
Which of these is NOT usually considered a STEM field: engineering, mathematics, history, or computer science?
What is history?
Why might two siblings look different from each other even though they have the same parents?
What is because they inherit different combinations of genes from their parents?
A phone uses facial recognition to unlock itself. Which technology allows the phone to recognize patterns in images and make decisions based on them?
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
A student is interested in helping the environment but also enjoys building and designing things. Which STEM field could combine those interests?
What is environmental engineering?
This STEM career uses data to find patterns and help businesses make decisions.
What is a data scientist?
A student enjoys solving puzzles, building things, and figuring out why machines don't work. Which STEM field might be a good fit?
What is engineering?
A doctor gives a patient antibiotics for a bacterial infection. Why wouldn't antibiotics normally work against a virus such as the common cold?
What is because bacteria and viruses are different types of organisms, and antibiotics target bacteria?
You are designing a robot that needs to avoid obstacles. What is one type of technology you could give the robot to help it detect objects in front of it?
What is a sensor or camera?
You enjoy science but don't want a career where you spend all day in a laboratory. Name one STEM career that could still allow you to use science.
Examples include environmental scientist, science teacher, science communicator, engineer, science journalist, or public-health specialist.
A student loves animals but doesn't want to become a veterinarian. Name one STEM career where they could still work with animals or wildlife.
What is zoologist, wildlife biologist, marine biologist, animal scientist, or ecologist?