[Clodagh Jackman]

The Paper, Unravelling STEM: Beyond the acronym of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, got me thinking about my teaching in general, not just teaching the STEM subjects. This paper outlines the characteristics of authentic STEM education. These characteristics included allowing for innovation and critical thinking, integrating real world and relevant learning experiences, and inspiring creativity, teamwork and problem-solving. I find these characteristics to be true to any successful lesson that I have taught in a classroom. I find that all of my STEM lessons contain these characteristics, and therefore the children enjoy them and the lessons are a success. I realised that if I brought these characteristics into all of my lessons throughout the day, it would make for very enjoyable learning experiences for the students in my class.
I think that the children will really enjoy the activities in the ESA resources. I love that both of the activities are student-led, giving the students a sense of ownership and pride in their own learning. I also like that the activities are hands on, inquiry bases, and include problem solving.
To lead the school in studying and communicating the weather and climate knowledge and ideas I have gained from the material in this course, I would get my class to set up a weather station somewhere suitable on the school grounds that is accessible to every class and student. I would firstly, make sure my class were comfortable using the equipment and explaining how it works. Then, I would get my class, in small groups to show other classes the weather station and how it works, so that each class in the school would be able to use the weather station whenever they like.

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