Engaging Families in STEM Careers Through Hands-On Activities
Explore the world of STEM careers with engaging activities designed to build key skills and raise awareness among students and families. From career skill challenges to interactive games, discover the diverse opportunities in STEM fields and inspire the next generation to pursue rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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STEM Career STEM Career Games Games STEM + Families STEM + Families Propelling Our World Propelling Our World Event Event STEM Career Skill Challenges STEM Career Bingo In partnership with Huntington Ingalls Industries In partnership with Huntington Ingalls Industries Insert Date Insert Date
Introductions Introductions [Insert names and photos of PTA members who will be facilitating.]
Actively participate Be open-minded and respect other people s ideas Use technology responsibly Limit sidebars; please mute when not speaking NORMS NORMS
Tonights Goals Tonight s Goals Make real-world career connections with hands-on STEM career games. Provide students and families with the knowledge, skills, resources and opportunity to explore STEM careers. Inspire students and families to continue to explore careers in STEM.
STEM Career Games Activity STEM Career Games Activity The STEM Career Games activity is designed to increase students and families awareness of STEM skills and STEM careers. Families will be able to see opportunities in STEM, engage in different STEM skills and learn about an array of STEM careers.
Plan for Plan for the the Evening Evening 1) STEM Career Skill Challenges 1) STEM Career Skill Challenges 2) STEM Career Bingo 2) STEM Career Bingo Insert Station 2 video Insert Station 2 video
These challenges are designed to help students practice important STEM skills that will help them be successful in any future career. STEM career fields cultivate a core number of skills. These STEM skills are not only needed in highly technical fields, but are also valuable for all industries and future careers students are interested in. STEM STEM Career Career Skill Skill Challenges Challenges The goal of the challenge is to engage students and families in hands-on challenges that can help provide them real-world connections to STEM skills needed in the future workforce.
STEM STEM Career Career Skill Skill Challenges Challenges 1) 2) 3) 4) Post-It Face Challenge Big Bad Wolf Challenge Paper Bag Game Challenge Toothpick Tally Challenge
Post-It Face Challenge Gather Gather Your Your Materials Materials Post-Its (1 pack) Timer
Team up with your family (based on your family unit). Your team has one minute to place as many post- it notes as they can on their face. After the timer goes off, count how many post-its stayed on each players faces without falling off. The winner is the player with the greatest number of post-its! Do the Do the Activity Activity
Questions to Consider Questions to Consider How did your team use the Creativity STEM skill during the activity?
Big Bad Wolf Challenge Gather Gather Your Your Materials Materials Balloons (1 pack) Plastic or Paper Cups (1 pack) Timer
Team up with your family (based on your family unit). Build a house of cups. Players have one minute to destroy the house just like the Big Bad Wolf, by blowing up a balloon and only using the air that s inside the balloon to knock down the house built. The player/team that blows the house off the table, in 60 seconds wins! Do the Do the Activity Activity
Questions to Consider Questions to Consider How did your team use Engineering Design Thinking, Critical Thinking and Collaboration STEM skills during the activity?
Paper Bag Game Challenge Gather Gather Your Your Materials Materials Paper Grocery Bags (need 5 bags per team/players) Scissors (at least 2 pairs) Rulers (at least 2 pairs) Timer
Team up with your family (based on your family unit). Before the game play, cut each of the five paper grocery bags to a different height (suggestions: 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2 ). **This is a great measurement activity for students have them measure with a ruler! (Allow an adult to cut the height once measured with scissors). Set up each bag, opened, on the floor, spaced out in a row. Starting with the tallest bag, the team/players that places all five bags on the table with their teeth only, in 60 seconds wins! Set the timer for 60 seconds and start the game. Do the Do the Activity Activity
Questions to Consider Questions to Consider How did your team use Creativity, Problem Solving and Collaboration STEM skills during the activity?
Toothpick Tally Challenge Gather Gather Your Your Materials Materials Toothpicks Timer
Team up with your family (based on your family unit). Place a pile of toothpicks on a table. Players have one minute to spell as many three- letter words they can, using only toothpicks. The toothpicks cannot be broken. Set the timer for 60 seconds and start the game. The player/team with the most three-letter words spelled wins! Do the Do the Activity Activity
Questions to Consider Questions to Consider How did your team use Creativity and Critical Thinking STEM skills during the activity?
STEM Career Bingo is designed to help students and families learn about different types of STEM related careers. The goal of this game is for students and families to learn about STEM careers to gain an understanding of how STEM is used in the real world. STEM STEM Career Career Bingo Bingo
STEM Career Bingo Pencils, pens, crayons Fun objects to cover bingo cards with (pom poms, dot markers, etc.) STEM Career Bingo Cards STEM Career Bingo Career Lists STEM Career Bingo Career Descriptions Gather Gather Your Your Materials Materials
With your family, read through the list of STEM careers and review the STEM career descriptions. Select STEM careers of interest to your family and create your own Bingo Game Card by writing and/or drawing images of the careers selected. For each category (S,T,E and M column) your family should pick two careers you are familiar with and pick three careers you are not familiar with. In the ST-EM column, your family should pick an additional (S), (T), (E) and (M) career. Do the Do the Activity Activity Write or draw any careers (can be a career in your community) on the Career List that are not included in the information packet. Your family will select one of those careers and write it the FREE space on the bingo card. Remember, your FREE space should already be marked. We ll read off one STEM career at a time. Mark off your careers as you hear them. When a student/family gets five STEM careers covered in a row across, down, or diagonal they win!
Questions to Consider Questions to Consider What STEM Careers interested your family the most?
What Did You Learn What Did You Learn from the STEM from the STEM Career Game Career Game Activities? Activities?
STEM skills are present in almost every career, whether directly or indirectly. STEM skills include: Problem Solving: STEM requires breaking problems into small steps and thinking of multiple solutions. Creativity: In STEM mistakes and failed attempts are a good thing! Sometimes solving problems means coming up with creative answers! Inquiry Skills: Asking questions, proposing ideas, generating and testing solutions and making decisions are active ways to solve STEM problems through inquiry-based thinking. Engineering Design Thinking: This is the STEM process to help identify, research, build prototypes, test, redesign and further iterate or change a design to solve problems. Critical Thinking: Effective STEM learning requires an understanding of how to analyze information, evaluate designs, reflect on thinking and combine ideas. Collaboration: STEM is teamwork! Challenges are rarely solved by one person. It takes a team. 1) STEM STEM Career Career Connection Connection 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)
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