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EdVentures in Life

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Make a Biltmore Stick: Environment + STEAM

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Biltmore sticks, or cruiser sticks, were developed on the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina in the late 1800’s to measure approximate tree diameter at breast height (DBH) and tree height. The Biltmore stick uses the principle of right triangles and

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Geometry, Science, Environment

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Teambuilder Challenges for STEAM skills

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A collection of 9 different teambuilder challenges designed to highlight transferable STEAM skills. Requiring minimal materials and set-up, these challenges are usable for a class, outdoor school, a homeschool group, or after school. Included is a

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Character Education, Back to School, Classroom Community

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Stream Investigation Lesson

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A lesson designed to explore how stream health is affected by land use and non-living variables using provided data and to engage with an online stream mapping tool to investigate the “big picture” of stream health. Use water quality data presented

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Science, Environment, Problem Solving

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6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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GATE, Internet Activities

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Budget Exercise for user designed STEAM

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A budget exercise for a developing a user-designed makerspace or STEAM Lab. While time intensive, involving students in researching materials and proposing a budget will ensure a user-designed space. This exercise intentionally has a lot of blank

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Applied Math, Other (Arts), Engineering

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Worksheets, Activities, Grant Proposals

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Sustainability Poster for Makerspace / Steam Labs

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You've probably heard of reduce, reuse, and recycle. These posters address conservation of materials in your STEAM Lab or makerspace. Use the idea of recognizing problems, re-designing, and more to begin to add more purpose to your maker and STEAM

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Environment, Earth Day, Engineering

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Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

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Design a Microscope

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Having students design their own microscope invites them to expand one act of creativity into a way to repeatedly engage in the microscopic world around them. While the outcome is the same, to build a lightweight, flat, "microscope", the students

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Environment, Other (Specialty), Engineering

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Design Thinking Planning Guide for STEAM/Makerspace

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This includes two versions of a general design thinking planning guide for older elementary students-middle school to fill out for guided or student-led making and innovation. It is designed to encourage students to think before designing, and

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Science, Problem Solving, Engineering

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Deconstruction/Take Apart Guide for Makerspace and STEAM

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Two versions of deconstruction guides for tech or toy take-aparts to document the deconstruction process, and to encourage students to incorporate safety, curiosity, and sketching. Designed for grades 2+, and uses the same format as the ESSTEAM

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Science, Other (Specialty), Critical Thinking

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

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Streamer: Online River Mapping Tool Guide

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Studying watersheds? Want to know how far it is from your classroom to a point downstream?Need information on the approximate population within a watershed? Streamer, an online tool from USGS that is part of The National Map, allows you to do that

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Environment, Other (Science)

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Hi, my name is Katie Monsma! Thanks for checking my store out. // Environmental Educator (MS in Environmental Education) ~~ STEAM Program Development~~ Maker educator~~ Passionate about environmental literacy, STEAM education, and experiential education. I geek out about water and forest ecology, and meteorology. I've primarily worked in informal education, in after school programs, state parks, and Olympic National Park, to name a few.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

BS Environmental Science, Messiah College~~ MS Environmental Education, Southern Oregon University~~ Maker Educator Certificate, Sonoma State University

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Military spouse and Hearing impaired since youth

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Specialty, Math, Applied Math, Geometry, Science, Environment, Other (Science), Arts & Music, Other (Art), Other (Specialty), Critical Thinking, Character Education, Problem Solving, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Earth Day, Engineering, Classroom Community