I Know All About It
Girl Power
Game Changers
Teach Me If You Can
DISD Did Whaaat?
100
An acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
What is STEM?
100
This pioneering female inventor patents a machine to produce flat-bottomed paper bags in 1870.
Who is Martha Knight?
100
One of several informal science institutions that regularly engage young people in STEM knowledge and skills. You might see a star or two.
What is a planetarium?
100
Everyone could use on of these to look up to, especially when trying to encourage STEM studies with middle school girls.
What is a role model?
100
Mark the date for the Dallas ISD STEM Day.
What is February 1, 2014?
200
A teacher of other professional who prepares students to seek opportunities that are related to STEM fields of study.
What is a STEM educator?
200
Born a slave in 1850, this female engineer was the first Afr. Am. woman to obtain a patent for her folding cabinet bed.
Who is Sarah E. Goode?
200
These standards released in spring 2013, emphasize the engagement in the practices of science and engineering and conceptual understanding over memorization of facts.
What is The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
200
This teaching strategy puts the work on the students and requires them to apply learned concepts. Hint: act like a teacher
What is Peer Instruction?
200
On Sept. 28th this DISD facility, equipped with four science labs and a 28,000 sqft. museum with interactive exhibits and a theater, never charges a fee to DISD students, parents or staff, with 500 acres and bilingual instruction was opened to the public for science and exploration.
What is the Dallas ISD Environmental Education Center?
300
This coalition group's central mission is to inform federal and state policymakers on the critical role that STEM education plays in US competitiveness and prosperity.
What is the STEM Education Coalition?
300
This female chemist invented Kevlar, a polymer fiber that is five times stronger than the same weight of steel and is now used in bulletproof vests, helmets, trampolines, tennis rackets, tires and many more common objects.
Who is Stephanie Louise Kwolek?
300
These are national guidelines in Math and English currently adopted by 44 states and the District of Columbia which focus on the most important topics, are logically sequenced over time and encourage deeper thinking.
What are Common Core State Standards?
300
This is hindered by stereotypes and educators assuming these students can not learn and excel in STEM curriculums.
What is minority representation in college STEM studies?
300
An accelerated learning initiative and commitment of resources for strategic feeder patterns in DISD.
What is Imagine 2020?
400
This organization uses a broader category to define STEM subjects which includes subjects in the field of Chemistry, Computer & Information Technology Science, Geosciences, Life Sciences Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Astronomy
What is the National Science Foundation (NSF)?
400
This female innovator of science and engineering invented the windshield wiper in 1903.
Who is Mary Anderson?
400
Employment in professional, scientific, and technical services, computer systems designs, management, scientific and technical consulting services.
What are jobs requiring STEM knowledge and skills by 2020?
400
This book dares a girl to explore and was written in response to expressed discontent by females when a similar book for boys preceded it.
What is the Daring Book for Girls?
400
Use of online content, online instruction and the creation of authentic student content available anywhere, anytime and on ANY device. Just ask Sean, Ciane or Oswaldo!
What is blended learning?
500
a law enacted August 2007 in response to concerns that the United States may not be able to compete economically with other nations in the future due to insufficient investment today in STEM education and workforce development.
What is the America COMPETES Act of 2007?
500
She was the first self-made Afr. Am. female millionaire, who acquired her fortune from selling the hair and beauty products she created with her own formulas.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
500
School Leadership, Staff collaboration and Positive climate
What are three essential organizational elements that contribute to a meaningful change?
500
In this book the author wrote that Literature and Classics were High School subjects considered best suited for men. Females were geared toward more practical studies such as science and math because they taught discipline and training.
What is Teaching the Female Brain?
500
https://sites.google.com/a/dallasisd.org/dallas-isd-stem-department/
What is the STEM department Google site with links to math and science resources by grade levels?
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