{"id":48881,"date":"2022-04-28T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=48881"},"modified":"2022-05-03T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T14:25:23","slug":"full-steam-ahead-at-ems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2022\/04\/full-steam-ahead-at-ems\/","title":{"rendered":"Full STEAM Ahead at EMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten through grade 12 students are \u201cpicking up STEAM\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s STEM with an \u201cA\u201d\u2013 at Eastern Mennonite School.<\/p>\n<p>STEM is quickly recognized by most people as coursework that emphasizes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. STEAM \u2014 with an \u201cA\u201d \u2014 adds \u201cthe arts\u201d into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Students in Sarah Mitch\u2019s high school anatomy and physiology STEAM class recently used modeling clay, paper mache, paint, and other art techniques to create the three-dimensional models pictured here.<\/p>\n<p>Using their fingers to create blood vessels and an optic nerve, sculpt hair follicles, and label parts of the brain, helped students to absorb anatomy lessons at a deeper level than reading, looking at pictures, or even drawing might. The photos feature a kidney, eyeball, brain, and cross section of human skin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2020\/01\/combining-art-and-stem-for-steam-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See a 2020 article<\/a> about a seventh grade solar-powered car STEAM project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about STEAM<\/strong><br \/>\nSTEAM courses are seen as pedagogically holistic and often involve project-based learning, providing opportunities for students with diverse interests and abilities to contribute, writes Joseph Lathan, PhD, of the University of San Diego, in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu\/steam-education-in-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Steam is So Important to 21st Century Learning<\/a>.\u201d Creative processes and varied forms of inquiry and investigation are often included.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSTEAM experiences help students to be innovators,\u201d observes Maria Archer, K-8 principal who taught a project-based class this winter to eighth grade students doing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project work allows students to exercise both sides of their brain at once, and sparks interest and lifelong love of the arts and sciences,\u201d believes Archer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten through grade 12 students are \u201cpicking up STEAM\u201d \u2014 that\u2019s STEM with an \u201cA\u201d\u2013 at Eastern Mennonite School. STEM is quickly recognized by most people as coursework that emphasizes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. STEAM \u2014 with an \u201cA\u201d \u2014 adds \u201cthe arts\u201d into the mix. Students in Sarah Mitch\u2019s high school anatomy and\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[40,135,133,134,69,25,325,339,19],"class_list":["post-48881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","tag-elementary","tag-emes","tag-emhs","tag-emms","tag-high-school","tag-middle-school","tag-science","tag-steam","tag-stem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48881"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}