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STEM Curriculum Resources by Dr. Wesley Fryer
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    • About
    • AudioBoo to KidBlog
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    • iPad Apps & Tips
    • iPad Blogging
    • iPad Coding
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      • Color Changing Milk
      • Dry Ice Fun
      • Elephant Toothpaste
      • Explosive Pringles
      • Mentos Geyser
      • Sinking Soda Surprise
      • Soap Souffle
      • Taco Sauce Penny Cleaner
    • Lego Robotics
    • Maker Studio
      • Green Screen Project
      • Lego Stopmotion
      • MinecraftEDU Collaborative Build
      • Musical Creations
      • Rube Goldberg Projects
      • Sphero Ball Maze
    • Makers Club
    • Makey Makey
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      • MinecraftEDU Treehouse Challenge
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      • Other Media
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      • Center 1: The Scientific Power of Music
      • Center 2: Measuring Sound with iPads
      • Center 3: Tuning Fork Sounds
      • Center 4: Waterphone
      • Center 5: Sound Through String and Wire
      • Center 6: Boomwhackers
      • Center 7 - Sound Energy
      • Center 8: How Sound is Made
      • Center 9: Step Sequencer
    • Scratch
      • Challenges
    • Videos
    • Visual Notes and Dreaming BIG
    • Water Bottle Rockets
    • YouTube
      • Alternate YouTube Publishing Workflow
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        • 5th Grade Fall 2013
        • 5th Grade Spring 2014
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      • iPad Apps & Tips
      • iPad Blogging
      • iPad Coding
      • Kitchen Chemistry
        • Color Changing Milk
        • Dry Ice Fun
        • Elephant Toothpaste
        • Explosive Pringles
        • Mentos Geyser
        • Sinking Soda Surprise
        • Soap Souffle
        • Taco Sauce Penny Cleaner
      • Lego Robotics
      • Maker Studio
        • Green Screen Project
        • Lego Stopmotion
        • MinecraftEDU Collaborative Build
        • Musical Creations
        • Rube Goldberg Projects
        • Sphero Ball Maze
      • Makers Club
      • Makey Makey
      • MinecraftEDU
        • MinecraftEDU Breakout Challenge
        • MinecraftEDU House Spanish Labeling Challenge
        • MinecraftEDU Redstone Engineering Challenge
        • MinecraftEDU Treehouse Challenge
      • Other Stuff
        • Our AudioBoos
        • Nominate or Flag
        • Other Media
      • Paper Airplane Flight Basics
      • Prosthetics
      • Science & Technology of Sound & Music
        • Center 1: The Scientific Power of Music
        • Center 2: Measuring Sound with iPads
        • Center 3: Tuning Fork Sounds
        • Center 4: Waterphone
        • Center 5: Sound Through String and Wire
        • Center 6: Boomwhackers
        • Center 7 - Sound Energy
        • Center 8: How Sound is Made
        • Center 9: Step Sequencer
      • Scratch
        • Challenges
      • Videos
      • Visual Notes and Dreaming BIG
      • Water Bottle Rockets
      • YouTube
        • Alternate YouTube Publishing Workflow
    • Jan 8
    • Jan 7
    • Photos

Books

Here are some books I've read, am reading, or have on my reading "wish list" relating to STEM.

Classroom Teaching Ideas

    1. Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager (my public Kindle highlights and notes for this book are available)

    2. Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes: Unforgettable Experiments That Make Science Fun by Steve Spangler

    3. The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer by Seymour Papert

    4. Teach Like a PIRATE by Dave Burgess

Creativity and Innovation

    1. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

    2. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Sir Ken Robinson

Technology, Change, and the Future

    1. What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

    2. Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte

    3. The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise by Virginia Postrel

    4. The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

Header image collage photo sources (all licensed Creative Commons - BY by Wesley Fryer)

  1. Oklahoma Science Museum Mascot

  2. Houston Space Center

  3. Oklahoma Center for Adult Stem Cell Research

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