Exploring STEM through exciting television shows across the country
Alabama is the new car manufacturing capital of the country. Along with numerous research and development institutes, cyber security and missile defense, it is one of the largest employers in multiple STEM fields.
Alabama STEM Explorers – All Episodes
Women in Engineering/ Manufacturing Processes
Johnson Control CenterAnn Marie visits Johnson Control Center to learn about fire suppression systemsSystems 23. Design a digital artifact to propose a solution for a content-related problem. Example: Create a presentation outlining how to create a cost-efficient...
Coding
AIDBMitch visits the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind STEM bus and builds his own game and programs a robotBlock-based programming language – Any predefined code that lets users create programs by manipulating “blocks” or graphical programming elements, rather...
Hydroponics and Vertical Farming
Vertical Growing-AuburnMitch visits a mobile farm that travels the state behind an 18-wheeler to learn about hydroponics and vertical farming.Objective SCI.7.9.2: Investigate various agricultural techniques that promote soilconservation (e.g. composting, replanting,...
Vertebates/Invertebrates and Phytoplankton
Dauphin Island Sea LabMitch learns to identify vertebrates and invertebrates that live the ocean and the role of phytoplankton Objective SCI.7.15.1: Define anatomical structure, fossil record, and chronological order. Objective SCI.7.5.2: Explain the role of...
Technology in Fast Food Restaurants
McDonald'sAnderson visits McDonalds to see how technology is making fast food even fasterAs Citizens of a Digital Culture, students verbalize the impact of computing in a global society while safely, securely, ethically, and legally interacting with digital...
Forensics
UAB Criminal Justice ForensicsAnderson learns about fingerprints and fracture matching at UABAnalyze and interpret data
Two-cycle Engines
Barbers Motorcycle MuseumJoin Mitch at Barber Motor Sports to learn about 2-Cycle engines as he takes apart a motorcycle and rebuilds it. Integrated into the Physical Science content standards are the disciplinary core ideas of the Engineering, Technology, and...
Butterfly Life Cycle
Huntsville Botanical GardensRaine visits Huntsville Botanical Gardens to learn about the butterfly life cycle and plants that eat bugs.Objective SCI.3.6.1: Define life cycle, birth, growth, reproduction, death, unique, and diverse.Objective SCI.3.6.2: Differentiate...
DNA/RNA and Covid Testing
Thermo Fisher ScientificAnderson builds a double helix DNA with candyObjective B.3.1: Define deoxyribonucleic acids, ribonucleic acids, DNA replication, deletion, insertion, translocation, point shift and frame shift mutation. Objective B.3.3: Construct a model of...
Ocean Currents
Mobile Dauphin Island Sea LabMitch builds a device for studying ocean currents at Dauphin Island Sea LabObjective SCI.6.13.4: Correlate the effect of ocean currents on weather patterns.
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