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EdVentures in Life

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Resources for homeschooling with a focus on nature and STEM.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, Homeschool, Not Grade Specific

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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