Team+18+Brainstorming

toc //You are brainstorming ideas to connect students to one another to teach a STEM topic or subject. This brainstorming page is meant as a starting point. DELETE the italics as these are the instructions.//

=Idea Generation= //Goal: At least 50 ideas before you move on between all of the categories below. Try for at least 5 ideas in each area below.//

Laugh

 * Sack racing (time versus distance calculations)
 * Time it takes to make someone laugh
 * silly data eg: length of big toe
 * data about teachers
 * data about silly movies
 * making a silly movie

Make Moments
//Think of ways you can use powerful, moving, emotional stories and/or media to teach and how you can connect students to build on that moment.//
 * personal economic impacts
 * student-generated stories
 * Teen pregnancy
 * Effects of Smoking
 * Effects of common diseases
 * Oil Spill

Connect with People
//Think of people and ways you can connect students to experts, community leaders, authors, business people for learning.//
 * get info from city re: foreclosures, income, whatever the kids like/want to know
 * Have a skype conversation with Danny Forester on buildings
 * Get with local people in engineering to assist with problems
 * Have students call different experts to interview for information to bring back to the classroom
 * MIS and actuaries specialists discuss different aspects of their jobs
 * Have a professor teach a lesson

Take Action and Find Meaning
//Think of ways students can connect to each other AND take ACTION in their local communities and online relating to STEM areas//.
 * plans for bikeway
 * ways to help homeless students
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Co-Create
//Think of artifacts and projects that students from DIFFERENT classrooms can co-create relating to STEM.//
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Be an Idealist
//What do you WISH students would be able to do online together relating to STEM.//
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